How Does DuckDuckGo Make Money?

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DuckDuckGo, with around 100 million searches a day, is one of the world’s most popular search engines.

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The company, apart from search, has since launched a mobile and browser as well as email and website protection tools.

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DuckDuckGo differentiates itself from the competition by not tracking the user’s browsing activity nor selling the little data it collects to third parties.

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CEO Gabriel Weinberg founded DuckDuckGo back in 2008 after selling his first startup to Classmates.com for $10 million.

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DuckDuckGo now generates over $100 million in revenue per year. But how did it achieve this feat without harvesting and selling user data?

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Keyword Advertising

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Affiliate Commission

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Tracker Radar

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