DuckDuckGo Why now 100 million search queries?

DuckDuckGo reached a historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.

DuckDuckGo is one focused on privacy, reached a major milestone in its 12-year history this week when on Monday it logged more than 100 million search queries for the first time.

The achievement comes after a period of steady growth over the past two years, and especially since August 2020, when the search engine began receiving over 2 billion search queries per month on a regular basis.

The popularity of DuckDuckGo comes after the extension of the search engine beyond its website as it now offers mobile applications (Android and iOS), but also an exclusive extension of Chrome.

More than 4 million users installed these apps and extensions, as reported by the in a tweet in September 2020.

However, the search engine's growing popularity is also due to its goal of not collecting users and to provide the same search to all users.

As the company said last year, this non-collection of data sometimes makes it difficult to estimate the size of the users who use it.

The historic DuckDuckGo milestone comes at a time when both Signal and Telegram, two other privacy applications, have also announced significant growth periods.

Telegram announced on Monday that it had reached 500 million registered users, while Signal's servers collapsed on Friday when "millions of new users" began to arrive, the company said, exceeding even its most optimistic forecasts.

This move is of course not accidental. New users at Signal and Telegram are the direct result of a Facebook announcement last week that it will block access to WhatsApp accounts, unless users agree to a new Facebook privacy policy to more WhatsApp user data.

On Friday, Facebook postponed the new privacy policy for three months, but the damage had been done, and hundreds of millions of users who remembered their right to privacy joined Massal and Telegram en masse.

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