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DuckDuckGo history
DuckDuckGo company history timeline
DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
In July 2010, Weinberg started a DuckDuckGo community website (duck.co) to allow the public to report problems, discuss means of spreading the use of the search engine, request features, and discuss open sourcing the code.
At the end of 2010 all the iterative work on the project became better.
Since that funding, and a second round of funding by OMERS Ventures in 2018, the team has expanded to over 100 employees and a bunch of open-source contributors. It was self-funded until October 2011, when it was backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors.
Weinberg reported that it had earned US$115,000 in revenue in 2011 and had three employees, plus a small number of contractors.
By May 2012, the search engine was attracting 1.5 million searches a day.
GNOME released Web 3.10 on September 26, 2013, and starting with this version, the default search engine is DuckDuckGo.
On May 21, 2014, DuckDuckGo officially released the redesigned version that focused on smarter answers and a more refined look.
On May 30, 2016, The Tor Project, Inc made DuckDuckGo the default search engine for Tor Browser 6.0.
In December 2018, it was reported that Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo.
Since that funding, and a second round of funding by OMERS Ventures in 2018, the team has expanded to over 100 employees and a bunch of open-source contributors.
In March 2019, Google added DuckDuckGo to the default search engine list in Chrome 73.
In July 2021, DuckDuckGo introduced its email forwarding feature Email Protection, which lets users claim an "@duck.com" email address generated by the service.
As of November 2021, it had 101 million daily searches on average.
On March 1, 2022, in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, DuckDuckGo paused its partnership with Yandex Search.
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