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November 30, 2020 / Last updated : November 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Search Engine Land: How DuckDuckGo (and Microsoft) benefit from Google’s sprawling advertising business

Search Engine Land: How DuckDuckGo (and Microsoft) benefit from Google’s sprawling advertising business. “DuckDuckGo is a search engine that was founded in 2008 with a focus on protecting searchers’ privacy, notably showing all searchers the same search results and refraining from building profiles of its users. Its search volume has risen steadily over the years, […]

October 13, 2020 / Last updated : October 13, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Fast Company: DuckDuckGo, EFF, and others just launched privacy settings for the whole internet

Fast Company: DuckDuckGo, EFF, and others just launched privacy settings for the whole internet. “A group of tech companies, publishers, and activist groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, and DuckDuckGo are backing a new standard to let internet users set their privacy settings for the entire web.”

July 4, 2020 / Last updated : July 4, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

The Verge: DuckDuckGo reinstated in India after being unreachable since July 1st

The Verge: DuckDuckGo reinstated in India after being unreachable since July 1st. “Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been restored in India after being unreachable for many users there since July 1st, Android Police reported. Reports about what was causing the outage have varied.” I’m glad this was resolved relatively quickly, because it was weird.

July 2, 2020 / Last updated : July 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

The Next Web: Multiple service providers are blocking DuckDuckGo in India

The Next Web: Multiple service providers are blocking DuckDuckGo in India. “Users on Reddit have noticed they’re unable to access the site on their Airtel and Reliance Jio mobile network connections. While Some users on Twitter have further suggested multiple internet service providers (ISP) have blocked the site.”

June 9, 2020 / Last updated : June 9, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

9to5 Mac: Apple should acquire DuckDuckGo to put pressure on Google Search, analyst argues

9to5 Mac: Apple should acquire DuckDuckGo to put pressure on Google Search, analyst argues. “One analyst has a suggestion for how Apple could put pressure on Google: acquire DuckDuckGo. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi says that an acquisition of privacy-focused DuckDuckGo would allow Apple to put pressure on Google and tap into lucrative advertising revenue.” ick.

June 4, 2020 / Last updated : June 4, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

BNN Bloomberg: Google search a target of U.S. antitrust probes, rival says

BNN Bloomberg: Google search a target of U.S. antitrust probes, rival says. “U.S. federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions about how to limit Google’s power in the online search market as part of their antitrust investigations into the tech giant, according to rival DuckDuckGo Inc. Gabriel Weinberg, chief executive officer of the privacy-focused […]

March 6, 2020 / Last updated : March 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

CNET: Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo launches new effort to block online tracking

CNET: Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo launches new effort to block online tracking. “The company said Thursday it’s started sharing a data set called Tracker Radar that details 5,326 internet domains used by 1,727 companies and organizations that track you online. The data is available to anyone, and browser maker Vivaldi said on Tuesday it has begun doing […]

January 27, 2020 / Last updated : January 27, 2020 ResearchBuzz Useful Stuff

Lifehacker: Use DuckDuckGo ‘Lite’ for Absurdly Fast Search Results

Lifehacker: Use DuckDuckGo ‘Lite’ for Absurdly Fast Search Results. “Most folks probably think of DuckDuckGo as the more privacy-focused alternative to Google, but one of the lesser-discussed benefits ditching all that data tracking is increased search speed. The normal DuckDuckGo search eats up less data and requires fewer requests than Google, but there’s also a […]

January 11, 2020 / Last updated : January 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Neowin: Open letter from 50+ organizations want Google to do something about Android bloatware

Neowin: Open letter from 50+ organizations want Google to do something about Android bloatware. “Over 50 organizations including the Privacy International, Digital Rights Foundation, DuckDuckGo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation have written an open letter to Alphabet and Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai about exploitive pre-installed bloatware on Android devices and how they pose a privacy risk […]

January 11, 2020 / Last updated : January 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Neowin: Google announces the ‘winners’ of the controversial choice screen search engine auction

Neowin: Google announces the ‘winners’ of the controversial choice screen search engine auction. “Google has announced the search engines that it’ll show to new European Android phone users as an alternate choice to its own Google Search service. This change comes as a result of Google being fined €4.34 billion for ‘illegal tying of Google’s […]

November 25, 2019 / Last updated : November 25, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Wired: I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here’s why you should too

Wired: I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here’s why you should too. “What was the last thing you searched for online? For me, it was ‘$120 in pounds’. Before that, I wanted to know the capital of Albania (Tirana), the Twitter handle of Liberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey (he’s @EdwardJDavey) and dates of bank holidays […]

November 19, 2019 / Last updated : November 19, 2019 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Wired: DuckDuckGo Will Automatically Encrypt More Sites You Visit

Wired: DuckDuckGo Will Automatically Encrypt More Sites You Visit. “Today DuckDuckGo is releasing a feature called Smarter Encryption that combines its existing private search capabilities and tracker blocking service with a new tool to upgrade encryption for more of the sites you visit. It’s available on DuckDuckGo’s mobile browser for Android and iOS, and through […]

November 13, 2019 / Last updated : November 13, 2019 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo joins World Wide Web Consortium

Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo joins World Wide Web Consortium . “DuckDuckGo has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the search engine announced on Monday. As a member of the international organization, DuckDuckGo says it will contribute to ‘global standards with privacy in mind as part of our mission to raise the standard of trust […]

October 30, 2019 / Last updated : October 30, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Search Engine Journal: DuckDuckGo Study Finds More People Would Use Google Alternatives if Given a Choice

Search Engine Journal: DuckDuckGo Study Finds More People Would Use Google Alternatives if Given a Choice . “A study commissioned by DuckDuckGo finds more people would use non-Google search engines if they were offered a choice. To that end, DuckDuckGo proposes that Android smartphones come with a search preference menu that lets users choose their […]

October 30, 2019 / Last updated : October 30, 2019 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

CNN: States ask internet search rival for evidence in antitrust probe of Google

CNN: States ask internet search rival for evidence in antitrust probe of Google. “Texas’s attorney general has sent the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo a demand for documents and records as part of a multi-state antitrust probe into anti-competitive behavior by Google (GOOG).”

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