Apple Selects Duckduckgo Search Engine For Safari

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Duck Duck Go Gabriel Weinberg
Gabriel Weinberg, Founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo.

Does your search engine tracking your every internet search make you quackers? Check out DuckDuckGo, the Paoli-based search engine that does not track you.

Apple has just announced DuckDuckGo will be included in the future versions of Safari on iOS and OS X. This makes DuckDuckGo the first private search engine to be added to a major browser.

6.4.2014 duckduckgo“DuckDuckGo is thrilled to be included in Safari,” said Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo’s CEO and founder. “It’s great to see Apple making it easy for Safari users to access our anonymous search option.”

DuckDuckGo recently launched a reimagined and redesigned version that showcases a more powerful way to interact with their “instant answers”—information that appears above links and ads for recipes, videos, and hundreds of other topics. DuckDuckGo’s instant answers are open-source, allowing anyone to contribute ideas and code to them.

In 2013, DuckDuckGo received over one billion searches as people flocked to services that make privacy a primary focus.

DuckDuckGo, recently singled out for recognition by the Chester County Economic Development Council as a fine local business, is said to be one of Google’s smallest and most fierce competitors.

“A significant percentage of people prefer our search experience and we’re delighted to welcome Safari users,” said Weinberg.

DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008 and funded by Union Square Ventures in 2011. DuckDuckGo currently gets 5 million direct searches daily and has been featured on CBS This Morning, Fox & Friends, CNBC and others.

For more information on Apple’s decision to include DuckDuckGo’s search engine on Safari read the Philadelphia Business Journal article here.

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