Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey recently revealed that he has stopped using Google and moved to its rival search engine called the DuckDuckGo.
In a Twitter post, the CEO professed love to DuckDuckGo and said he had made it his default engine.
For those unaware of DuckDuckGo, this is claimed to be a secure search engine, that doesn’t track your data and web history to push out relevant ads to the users. So by admitting that DuckDuckGo is his preferred search engine, Dorsey is ensuring that his digital life is kept private.
Soon, DuckDuckGo responded to Dorsey's compliment with a witty tweet, saying they are happy to have him on their side of the fence, followed by a duck emoji.
Privacy-focused search engines and web browsers have quietly gained prominence among users who’re vary of what a Google or Facebook do with their data. DuckDuckGo has been around since 2008 but it’s obvious that its specific polices have appealed to people who seek more privacy on the internet, and Dorsey is likely to be part of an intriguing list now.
DuckDuckGo's search engine is far behind the US based search engine giant Google, with its average number of searches per days at close to 50 million, while Google processes more than 3.5 billion search queries a day.
But compared to Google, DuckDuckGo preaches about giving the ‘best results’ rather than ‘most results’ to its users, which seems to have connected with a unique set of userbase.
(With IANS inputs)
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