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How DuckDuckGo Rode A Wave Of Post-Snowden Anxiety To Massive Growth
When it first launched, DuckDuckGo seemed like it couldn't possibly be serious. A tiny, Philadelphia-based search engine going up against Google? Indeed, its early growth was glacial, despite offering itself as a less invasive search engine that doesn't track your online behavior. But then history intervened: Two years ago, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on NSA spying and American attitudes about privacy shifted.
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The applets at the top are awesome. Search DDG for "Saturn Rings" and it adds a stripe at the top with wikipedia's introduction to the subject, search for "Mustang" and it shows a disambiguation-like stripe that redirects to more specific searches, the images and video tabs are always present, the video one allows you to play the video embeded on DDG, which limits youtube's ability to track you.
Oh, and they have a calculator too.