With Annual Revenue North of $100 Million, Paoli’s DuckDuckGo Beats Yahoo! and Bing in Mobile Searches

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DuckDuckGo employees at the company's modest headquarters in Paoli.

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-minded search engine based in Paoli that launched in 2008 and became profitable in 2014, is now annually generating more than $100 million in revenue, writes Joseph DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The search engine — known for not tracking or selling user data — is aiming to launch several new products, including a full-scale desktop browser.

Gabriel Weinberg, a familiar figure in Internet-privacy circles, founded the company in 2008. It has since grown to 129 employees. Many of these software developers worked remotely before the pandemic and have never set foot in the firm’s modest headquarters on Paoli Pike.

According to Weinberg, the company “has been profitable since 2014, and today, our revenue exceeds $100 million a year, giving us the financial resources to continue growing rapidly.”

Ad sales fund the enterprise.

DuckDuckGo is currently second among mobile search engines nationwide (behind only Google) for the 12 month-period ending May 31. While it is currently a distant second place with just 2.2 percent of the market (Google’s got 94 percent), it is still ahead of Yahoo! and Bing, both of which are much larger companies.

Read more about DuckDuckGo in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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