DuckDuckGo, a search engine competing with Google and Bing that was all but unknown two weeks ago, is getting a big boost from the revelations that the Obama administration has been in cahoots with those corporate one-percenters at Google/Microsoft/Facebook etc. to learn the web histories of just about everybody in America.
DDG boasts that it keeps no records of personal information of those making searches hence authorities have nothing to find in the event they should be subpoenaed. It says its revenue is from those paying for keywords in searches.
CEO Gabriel Weinberg explains it here.
The engine can be found here. It’s easy to make it the default with Firefox. One suspects, though, not so much with Chrome or Safari.
