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by bko 10 days ago
> Since then, traffic to DuckDuckGo has been booming. Last week, the company noted that web visits to its no-AI search page were up nearly 30% week-over-week, and its U.S. app installs were also up 18.1% week-over-week, with U.S. iOS app installs peaking at 69.9% week-over-week growth.

Of course there are no absolute numbers or scale. This is just an advertisement for DuckDuckGo. It's gross that previously respected tech publications run this kind of slop for clicks
1 comments
ricardo81 10 days ago
DDG used to have a graph showing the number of queries they did daily. It was around 100 million searches a day before they removed it a few years back. They were receiving bad press at the time IIRC.

An educated guess is they're doing a similar number of searches today.

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dredmorbius 10 days ago
Oh, pity, seems they did kill that.

The traffic graph used to be at:

  https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
It was originally just a raw traffic graph, see <https://web.archive.org/web/20130711215117/https://duckduckg...>.

By late 2022 (18 November) it was a tabular presentation without the graph, and disappeared shortly afterward: <https://web.archive.org/web/20221118045948/https://duckduckg...>.

It's gone by 6 Dec 2022 (redirect to homepage): <https://web.archive.org/web/20221206080717/https://duckduckg...>

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