DuckDuckGo Processes 30 Million Queries Per Day

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, is an underdog if compared to the likes of Google or Bing. But it has been showing a steady growth.

The company announced the news with a tweet, stating that it took seven years to reach 10 million searches in one day. To get to 20 million searches, it took another two years (2017). Less than a year later, it is experiencing 30 million daily searches per day on average.

This is a 50 percent growth year-on-year.

"We’ve been growing by approximately 50% a year pretty consistently so at a macro level it isn’t too surprising, just the numbers are getting bigger!" said Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo. "That said it has been even increased on top of that this year, especially in the past two months.”

DuckDuckGo’ offers a search engine that is an alternative to Google, Bing and other search engines.

While its 30 million daily searches are still shy to Google which processes at least 3 billion daily searchers, DuckDuckGo has certainly paved a strong foothold in the search industry, appealing those who cared about privacy. It's no secret that Google and other search engines collect user data and use their behavioral data for ad targeting both on and off their services.

Privacy regulations such as Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which took effect in mid-2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the more frequent talks about privacy regulation in the U.S. and elsewhere have raised public awareness about online data security concerns.

With more people are aware of their data online, a growing number of people are becoming more privacy oriented when it comes to surfing the web.

All of these helped DuckDuckGo in strengthening its position inside the search engine industry.