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Duckduckgo (Also Abbreviated As DDG) Is An Internet Search Engine That Emphasizes Protecting

DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine founded in 2008 that emphasizes protecting user privacy by not profiling users or showing personalized search results. It distinguishes itself from other search engines by displaying the same results to all users for any given search term. DuckDuckGo is advertising supported but gives users the option to disable ads. It runs on various open source platforms and utilizes search APIs from other vendors to power its index.

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Duckduckgo (Also Abbreviated As DDG) Is An Internet Search Engine That Emphasizes Protecting

DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine founded in 2008 that emphasizes protecting user privacy by not profiling users or showing personalized search results. It distinguishes itself from other search engines by displaying the same results to all users for any given search term. DuckDuckGo is advertising supported but gives users the option to disable ads. It runs on various open source platforms and utilizes search APIs from other vendors to power its index.

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DuckDuckGo 

(also abbreviated as DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting


searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo
distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by showing all users the
same search results for a given search term.
DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania. Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-
defunct social network. Initially self-funded by Weinberg, DuckDuckGo is advertising-supported, but
the user has the option to disable ads. The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx,
FreeBSD, and Linux. DuckDuckGo is built primarily upon search APIs from various vendors.
Because of this, TechCrunch characterized the service as a "hybrid" search engine. Weinberg
explained the beginnings of the name with respect to the children's game duck, duck, goose. He said
of the origin of the name: "Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly
influenced/derived from duck duck goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g., a metaphor.

Swisscows originated from the parent company Hulbee AG. Technologies in the field of
intelligent information processing and search technologies based on semantics are being
developed there. Swisscows AG has a sister company, Hulbee Enterprise AG, which offers
enterprise search to companies. Hulbee Enterprise Search is already one of the best-known
Google alternatives in the enterprise segment.

Swisscows has all the skills to develop a new generation of web search engine. Swisscows is
the efficient alternative for anyone who attaches great importance to data integrity and the
protection of privacy.
Contrary to other search engines, users at Swisscows don’t leave any tracks. Swisscows even
does without countless analyses of their visitors. Their topics, IP addresses and personal
information, are not stored or used for any additional business.

WebCrawler is a search engine, and is the oldest surviving search engine on the web today. For
many years, it operated as a metasearch engine or as an online Information retrieval tool that uses
the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. Metasearch engines take input from a
user and immediately query search engines for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and
presented to the users. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.

Brian Pinkerton first started working on WebCrawler, which was originally a desktop application, on
January 27, 1994 at the University of Washington.[2] On March 15, 1994, he generated a list of the
top 25 websites.
WebCrawler launched on April 21, 1994, with more than 4,000 different websites in its database and
on November 14, 1994, WebCrawler served its 1 millionth search query for "nuclear weapons design
and research".
On December 1, 1994, WebCrawler acquired two sponsors, DealerNet and Starwave, which
provided money to keep WebCrawler operating.[2] Starting on October 3, 1995, WebCrawler was fully
supported by advertising, but separated the adverts from search results.
On June 1, 1995, America Online (AOL) acquired WebCrawler. After being acquired by AOL, the
website introduced its mascot "Spidey" on September 1, 1995.
Starting in April 1996, WebCrawler also included the human-edited internet guide GNN Select, which
was also under AOL ownership.
On April 1, 1997, Excite acquired WebCrawler from AOL for $12.3 million.
WebCrawler received a facelift on June 16, 1997, adding WebCrawler Shortcuts, which suggested
alternative links to material related to a search topic.
WebCrawler was maintained by Excite as a separate search engine with its own database until
2001, when it started using Excite's own database, effectively putting an end to WebCrawler as an
independent search engine. Later that year, Excite (then called Excite@Home) went bankrupt and
WebCrawler was bought by InfoSpace in 2001.

Pinkerton, WebCrawler's creator, led the Amazon A9.com search division as of 2012.


In July 2016, Blucora announced the sale of its InfoSpace business to OpenMail for $45 million,
putting WebCrawler under the ownership of OpenMail. OpenMail was later renamed System1.
In 2018, WebCrawler received another facelift and the logo of the search engine was changed.

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