

The algorithms of DDG are not very clear, however, in an official statement issued, it is mentioned that “We focus on strategic link building and quality content.Would DDG affect any current SEO strategy? While Google uses current location and determine the nearest located pizza place for you. For that you have to manually select the town. However, DDG shows search results only if you refine your search and narrow it down to your targeted town or area.As the local business won’t have traffic anywhere near 10,000 it won’t appear on DDG It might not cause problems for high traffic websites like the New York Times or BBC but for local business, DDG technically has zero market value.įor example – If I am looking for a local pizza place, then I would prefer Google or Bing as they not only generate results but they also give user ratings and map.If the site you are searching for has 10,000 or more visits, only then they show on the SERP of DDG. The first and the foremost problems with DDG is the results generated by it.What might cause problems for Duck Duck Go? So, it has shown some sparks, but still has a long way to go. The searches 4 million/day is nothing compared to giant 1 billion on Google.One of the recent survey carried out by 25 websites who use Google Analytics to determine traffic and search, stated that, only 5 searches came from DDG. It is too early to talk about the future of DDG (as we call it), but it surely has shown some promises.Will it be able to compete with the giants? By August 2013, they were up to 4,000,000 searches per day and rising. It took Duck Duck Go more than 6 years to reach to 1,000,000 searches per day, but since NSA fiasco, it has been uphill for them. In June 2014, Apple during the launch of its IOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, stated that they will add Duck Duck Go as an optional search engine for more private browsing.The NSA Prism program, that mentioned that they use Many search engines like Google and Bing to keep the track of users search history and IP address.So why now it has been gaining so much popularity or why now it is being discussed? Well, there are two big reasons for that, the first one being:.

Yes! You heard it right, Duck Duck Go is one of the three search engines globally, that doesn’t track or target your IP address or search history, the other two search engines are BLEKKO and IXQUICK.ĭuckDuckGo has been in existence for almost 8 years now. Founded in 2007, to deliver search related results to the users without tracking them. And yes, it was started in a basement too (cliche). Duck Duck Go, was founded on a very simple idea, much like Google and other search engines, and the idea was to give results when the user searches for anything.
