DuckDuckGo: Nibbling at the Little Toe of Googzilla

January 25, 2017

I like DuckDuckGo. I fire queries at the system and see if there are items I have missed after I have checked out Qwant.com, Unbubble.eu, Giburu.com, Ixquick (now StartPage.com), Exalead Search, Yandex, and, oh, I almost forgot, the Google.

I read “DuckDuckGo Hits Milestone 14 Million Searches in a Single Day.” I learned:

DuckDuckGo revealed it has hit a milestone of 14 million searches in a single day. In addition, the search engine is celebrating a combined total of 10 billion searches performed, with 4 billion searches conducted in December 2016 alone. For a niche search engine that many people don’t know exists, that’s some notable year-over-year growth. Around this same time last year, DuckDuckGo was serving 8–9 million searches per day on average.

Just to keep DuckDuckGo’s achievement in perspective, Internet Live Stats says that Googzilla handles 3.5 billion searches per day. Our research suggests that there is room for Web search systems like DuckDuckGo to grow. About half of those with Internet access don’t run queries. Hey, that Facebook thing is a big deal. Also, there are some folks who are looking to expand their search horizons.

So, on a per day basis 14 million searches for DuckDuckGo and 3.5 billion searches for the GOOG.

Stephen E Arnold, January 25, 2017

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Google, News, Search

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.