The new version of DuckDuckGo



DuckDuckGo — a hybrid search engine that works with 2008, without search spam, almost no ads, no spy on users (completely anonymous), supports hot keys and other cool stuff. In General, a kind Gukovskaya "opposition" to Google, created for a tiny group of the protest electorate.

Yesterday on a separate domain went new beta version of DuckDuckGo, with improved design and advanced settings. Here added many features requested by users in recent years. In particular, the autocomplete function of search queries (without collecting IP addresses and other personal user information), search database of questions and answers, news, maps, and products, perfect image and video search and other important options.





Over the next months it is planned to correct all identified deficiencies and make next.duckduckgo.com default version of the search engine. But now everyone can install a new interface as the default at the bottom of the front page.

Audience DuckDuckGo.com in 2011 was about 200 thousand a day but in 2012 after changes to the privacy policy of Google soared to 1.5 million, and in July 2013, after the news about the introduction of NSA in Google's corporate infrastructure — in one fell swoop to 4 million.

Although the audience DuckDuckGo can be called tiny by the standards of Google, but the search giant probably keeping an eye on "the opposition". There is one amusing example, which may be proof of this theory. In 2010, Google accidentally named property domain Duck.com as part of the deal to buy On2 Technologies, a developer of video codecs TrueMotion. Duck — is the former name of the company On2 Technologies. Now, Google does not sell domain as a non-core asset, as is usually done in such cases. And she did not put a redirect on the Wikipedia article about ducks that can be assumed as the most logical redirect for visitors of the site with the same name. Instead all users "OutKast" you are being redirected to Google.
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