{"id":7050,"date":"2013-07-12T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7050"},"modified":"2013-07-12T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:58:11","slug":"prism-fears-boost-private-search-engine-duckduckgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7050","title":{"rendered":"PRISM fears boost private search engine DuckDuckGo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7052\" alt=\"duck-duck-go\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go-300x184.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go.png 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you want to know just how crazy fear over PRISM-like surveillance\u00a0has made the Internet, take a look at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DuckDuckGo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to the National Security Agency leaks\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/video\/the-search-engine-that-vows-not-to-track-you-CdViZ6lIRZCWVorS~G40Wg.html\" target=\"_blank\">and some well-timed media\u00a0appearances<\/a>, the private search engine is having its best traffic week ever.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/traffic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Visitors\u00a0to the site made a record 2.35 million<\/a>\u00a0direct searches on Wednesday \u2014 a 26 percent increase over the previous week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg, the numbers are proof yet again that people are eager to find and use viable alternatives to popular web services, which are prime targets for government snooping. \u201cWe offer that in web search, and there are others that offer it in other verticals.\u00a0As people find out about these alternatives, they make that choice,\u201d Weinberg said via email today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DuckDuckGo was launched in 2008 and has since become the foremost search engine for those concerned about not just snooping by the government but Google as well. When visitors search via DuckDuckGo, the search engine doesn\u2019t track them; it just gives them the search results they request. (Like Google, DuckDuckGo does serve contextual ads, which is how it makes its money.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go-traffic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7051 \" alt=\"Traffic to DuckDuckGo tends to spike whenever new privacy fears pop up\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go-traffic-300x176.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go-traffic-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go-traffic-70x40.png 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go-traffic.png 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While interest in the search engine has climbed over the past year, fears over PRISM surveillance have made DuckDuckGo look significantly more important and necessary\u00a0seemingly\u00a0overnight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI believe the surveillance story is paramount right now, and people are talking about it. DuckDuckGo users are telling their friends and family about the private alternatives,\u201d Weinberg said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a similar note, this week designer Peng Zhong\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prism-break.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">launched\u00a0PRISM Break<\/a>,\u00a0a\u00a0comprehensive\u00a0site that lists private alternatives to popular web services. &#8211; Venturebeat.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know just how crazy fear over PRISM-like surveillance\u00a0has made the Internet, take a look at\u00a0DuckDuckGo. Thanks to the National Security Agency leaks\u00a0and some well-timed media\u00a0appearances, the private search engine is having its best traffic week ever.\u00a0Visitors\u00a0to the site made a record 2.35 million\u00a0direct searches on Wednesday \u2014 a 26 percent increase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PRISM fears boost private search engine DuckDuckGo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,86,10],"tags":[3893,2912,2515,3894],"class_list":["post-7050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-united-states","tag-duckduckgo","tag-prism","tag-privacy","tag-private-search-engine"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/duck-duck-go.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7053,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions\/7053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}