DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo home page as of 2018
Type of site
Search engine
Available inMultilingual
Headquarters20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States
Area servedWorldwide, except for Indonesia[1]
OwnerDuck Duck Go, Inc.[2]
Founder(s)Gabriel Weinberg
CEOGabriel Weinberg
Key peopleSteve Fishcher (CBO)
URLduckduckgo.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationNone
LaunchedSeptember 25, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-09-25)[3]
Current statusActive
Written inPerl,[4] JavaScript, Python[5]

DuckDuckGo is an American software company with a focus on online privacy.[6] The flagship product is a search engine that has been praised by privacy advocates.[7][8] Subsequent products include browser extensions[9] and a custom DuckDuckGo web browser.[10]

Headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, DuckDuckGo is a privately held company with about 200 employees.[11] The company's name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose.[12][13]

  1. ^ "Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns". Reuters. August 2, 2024. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  2. ^ "Duck Duck Go, Inc.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg News. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference About was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Buys was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Architecture". DuckDuckGo Community Platform. Archived from the original on April 22, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  6. ^ Edelman, Gilad (June 16, 2021). "DuckDuckGo's Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible". Wired. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  7. ^ Ovide, Shira (October 26, 2023). "Police love Google's surveillance data. Here's how to protect yourself". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  8. ^ "If You Care About Privacy, It's Time to Try a New Web Browser (Published 2021)". March 31, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  9. ^ "How To Add DuckDuckGo to Your Browser". duckduckgo.com. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  10. ^ "Does DuckDuckGo make a browser?". duckduckgo.com. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  11. ^ "About DuckDuckGo". DuckDuckGo. Archived from the original on November 25, 2022. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  12. ^ Rosenwald, Michael (November 9, 2012). "Ducking Google in search engines". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  13. ^ Arthur, Charles (July 10, 2013). "NSA scandal delivers record numbers of internet users to DuckDuckGo". The Guardian. Retrieved July 10, 2013.