WebSo why would Google buy DuckDuckGo? There’s no direct benefit to them in it, and it’s likely to have a significant price tag if the owners will even sell to Google.

I have been told Google bought DuckDuckGo recently, is … DuckDuckGo, however, claims it does not track its users.

“DuckDuckGo talks about their privacy, right, saying that they’re a private search engine,” Granville explained, “and if anybody had 6th grade developer tools, they can go into DuckDuckGo and they will see tracking cookies” in the site’s source code.While the privacy-friendly search option in the Chrome browser will be useful for those users who are concerned about ‘privacy violation,’ DuckDuckGo’s inclusion comes at a time when Google is facing scrutiny for abusing its monopoly in search and faces antitrust fines from the European Union for exercising its power in the mobile phone market.DuckDuckGo selling data to Google - Stillness in the Storm “We’re glad that Google has recognized the importance of offering consumers a private search option,” a DuckDuckGo spokesperson told TechCrunch when asked about the changes. The private search engine DuckDuckGo was founded in 2008 and saw 30 million searches in October last year. “The list of engine references for each country is being completely replaced based on new usage statistics, and unreferenced engine registrations are removed,” he stated.

However, a Google software engineer Orin Jawoski in GitHub mentioned that the default search engine has been refreshed from recently collected data. The company didn’t share much about the changes to Chromium’s default search engine. According to TechCrunch, who first spotted the search engine, Google is said to have introduced DuckDuckGo as a preferred search option in more than 60 markets globally.

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