DuckDuckGo Timeline
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Updated: 1 Nov 2022
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Created byCassandra Zent
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Creation of DuckDuckGo.Reddit communities and Hacker News learned of DuckDuckGo.DuckDuckGo made the claim to stop tracking their users.DuckDuckGo started giving back to companies through dontations.DuckDuckGo hired their first employee.DuckDuckGo moved to their permanent location.DuckDuckGo reached 1 million searches a day.DuckDuckGo donated for a second year, choosing the theme “open data/information".DuckDuckGo donated for a third year with the theme of “fix tracking”.DuckDuckGo reached 2 million searches a day.DuckDuckGo reached 3 million searches a day.DuckDuckGo's 2014 donation theme was “secure communications”.DuckDuckGo hired their 10th employee.Apple begins including DuckDuckGo in Safari.Mozilla adds DuckDuckGo as a built-in search option to Firefox.DuckDuckG0 divided $125,000 equally over five projects for their 5th year of donations.DuckDuckGo reached 10 million searches in a single day.DuckDuckGo divided $225,000 equally over nine projects for their 6th year of donations.DuckDuckGo reached a cumulative count of over 10 billion searches.DuckDuckGo divided $400,000 over sixteen projects for their 7th year of donations.DuckDuckGo reached over 20 million searches in a single day.DuckDuckGo launched a new mobile app & browser extension on all major platforms.For DuckDuckGo's eighth year of donations, they organized and donated to a privacy crowdfunding campaign that benefited 21 organizations.DuckDuckGo map and local searches are now anonymously enhanced by Apple Maps.DuckDuckGo surpassed 1 billion searches a month.For DuckDuckGo's eleventh year of donations, they donated $1M to benefit 22 organizations.It was discovered that DuckDuckGo doesn't block Microfost from tracking its users.
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