The DuckDuckGo search engine celebrates it's 14 year anniversary this month. As a privacy-oriented search engine, it does not retain any personally identifying information, and specifically does not retain IP address information about users.
As reported on January 13th on Search Engine Land, DuckDuckGo passes 100 billion searches. You can see search traffic growth on the site on the following page:
duckduckgo.com/traffic
I've also noticed that DuckDuckGo is becoming more visible in Google Analytics reports. In four sites I checked today, ranking search engines by traffic referred, the same rankings were present all all of the sites:
1) Google
2) Bing
3) Yahoo
4) DuckDuckGo
Not surprisingly, Google referrals swamped all of the other search engines. But on one site I checked, Yahoo beat out DuckDuckGo by only one referral, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them pass Yahoo as a referral source some sites on a regular basis pretty soon, given their rate of their growth.
For this week's poll, I ask you to share the extent to which you use DuckDuckGo as a search engine. And I invite you to share your thoughts about DuckDuckGo in a post, and how it ranks relative to other search engines in traffic referrals.
Michael