DuckDuckGo ranks #7 among US websites, beating Yahoo and Wikipedia. Founded 20 years ago by Gabe, who co-authored Traction, it built a massive audience on privacy and no targeted ads, something the host thought impossible for a non-Google search engine.
the 20 most popular websites in the United States. DuckDuckGo is number 7. It's more popular than Yahoo and Wikipedia and Twitter. DuckDuckGo was started 20 years ago, started by this guy named Gabe. Gabe was a mildly successful entrepreneur. He wrote this book called Traction with Justin Meyers, our friend, and then he had this whole premise of privacy search where he said privacy is going to be important to people. We brought this up on the pod in the very first 50 episodes. We're like, this is so cool because what they used to do is duckduckgo.com/stats. You could see all their web traffic and it was small at first. It's Google, but somehow they don't show you targeted ads. I didn't realize they were this big. I am blown away by this.
