Security News > 2021 > January > Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020
The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly as the company reached 102M daily search queries for the first time in January.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that builds its search index using its DuckDuckBot crawler, indexing WikiPedia, and through partners like Bing.
"Each time you search on DuckDuckGo, you have a blank search history, as if you've never been there before," DuckDuckGo explains in their privacy blog.
In January 2021, the search engine receives an average of 90 million search queries per day.
On January 11th, 2021, DuckDuckGo received 102,251,307 daily search queries, a record for the search engine.
The search engine also told BleepingComputer that high-profile privacy news, such as the recent concerns regarding data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook, lead to increased traffic for the search engine.