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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