‘Anonymous’ search engine sees rocketing growth after NSA revelations

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http://rt.com/news/search-duckduckgo-popularity-nsa-956/

RT.com
June 19, 2013

An alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has enjoyed a record surge in traffic 
as NSA scandals spark fears and frighten away Internet users from the more 
popular Google or Yahoo!.

Over the previous week DuckDuckGo, a private search engine, which claims not to 
collect users' searches or create any personal user profile, has increased its 
traffic by 26 per cent and passed 3.1 million of direct queries.

A traffic surge hit DuckDuckGo after Edward Snowden’s revelations that NSA 
obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, 
Yahoo and other US technology companies. The scandal over the US’s PRISM 
program played into the website’s hands, before that direct searches were 
around 1.6 million a day for the last few months.

However, despite impressive results, DuckDuckGo still cannot challenge internet 
search industry giants. For comparison, Google handles 5,134 million searches a 
day.

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