DuckDuckGo

This article is about the search engine. For the children's game, see Duck, duck, goose.

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
OwnerDuck Duck Go, Inc.[1]
Founder(s)Gabriel Weinberg
CEOGabriel Weinberg
Key peopleSteve Fishcher (CBO)
URLduckduckgo.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationNone
LaunchedSeptember 25, 2008; 15 years ago (2008-09-25)[2]
Current statusActive
Written inPerl,[3] JavaScript, Python[4]

DuckDuckGo is an American software company that offers a number of products intended to help people protect their online privacy.[5] The flagship product is a search engine that has been praised by privacy advocates.[6][7] Subsequent products include extensions for all major web browsers[8] and a custom DuckDuckGo web browser.[9]

Headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, DuckDuckGo is a privately held company with about 200 employees.[10] The company's name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose.[11][12]

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