But what happens on DuckDuckGo?
I repeated the same operation on DuckDuckGo. This nice search engine shows you a completely unique suggestion that hardly has any correlation to your previous searches.
Duckduckgo does not store your previous searches and shows you unfiltered results
It should be clearer to you now, right?
Despite not being even an inch close to the search giant Google, DuckDuckGo is growing faster than expected. With an average growth of 50% every year , this alternative search engine is putting some pressure on the exploring amazon: the essentials Mountain View giant.
Since its inception in 2008, DuckDuckGo has gone from an average of 79,839 daily searches to an average of 33,964,034 daily searches in the first 20 days of 2019.
Duckduckgo's growth from 2008 to today
How close is DuckDuckGo to Google?
If we speak strictly in terms of number of searches or total revenue, DuckDuckGo is just a "small" fish, dare I say microbe, compared to Google.
Just to clarify: what DuckDuckGo does in a day, Google does in an average of 12.5 minutes . Yes, there are approximately 33 million searches on Google every 12.5 minutes. That's 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 TRILLLLLLLION searches per year.
It can be said that DuckDuckGo is not a competitor of Google, but a worthy rival.
Also, don’t forget, it’s almost 10 years younger than Google. With 50% growth every year and people becoming more and more aware of data privacy , things could change for DuckDuckGo in the future.