DuckDuckGo is a search engine that is based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and uses information from crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia) with the aim of augmenting traditional results and improving relevance. The search engine philosophy emphasizes privacy and DOES NOT record user information like Google, Yahoo and other browsers.

DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg, a serial entrepreneur whose last venture, The Names Database, was acquired by United Online (NASDAQ:UNTD) in 2006 for $10M. Weinberg has a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT. The project was initially self-funded by Weinberg and is now occasionally advertising-supported. The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx and FreeBSD. Weinberg also does angel investing, and is part of the Philadelphia startup scene.

TygrBright

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3. DuckDuckGo is fabulous. It's my search engine of choice.

Reply to BlueJazz (Original post)

Sun Jan 22, 2012, 01:44 AM

Jan 2012

Although I also keep Google and Ixquick on my browser bar. Each has strength and utility for different functions. But I like DuckDuckGo's page design best. Simple, clean, easy to use.

appreciatively,
Bright

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