A Feisty Google Adversary Tests How Much People Care About Privacy

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/technology/duckduckgo-private-search.html

By Nathaniel Popper
The New York Times
July 15, 2019

PAOLI, Pa. -- Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 
miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle. An optometrist has an 
office downstairs.

Mr. Weinberg’s company, DuckDuckGo, has become one of the feistiest adversaries 
of Google. Started over a decade ago, DuckDuckGo offers a privacy-focused 
alternative to Google’s search engine.

The company’s share of the search engine market is still tiny — about 1 percent 
compared with Google’s 85 percent, according to StatCounter. But it has tripled 
over the past two years and is now handling around 40 million searches a day. 
It has also made a profit in each of the last five years, Mr. Weinberg said.

Mr. Weinberg, 40, is among the most outspoken critics of the internet giants. 
DuckDuckGo’s chief executive has repeatedly called for new privacy-focused 
legislation and has warned at hearings and in newspaper opinion pieces about 
the problems that big companies can cause by tracking our every move online.

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