We’re honored to share that 2018 was DuckDuckGo’s best year yet 👏. From where we stand, it was a breakout year for online privacy, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the surveillance revelations of 2013.

Like: 2018 in Review: A Breakout Year for DuckDuckGo and Internet Privacy

In terms of growth, 2018 saw our average daily private searches leap 63%, from 19 million to 31 million.

A lot of people will compare this to Google’s traffic and say it’s a drop in the bucket.  While that may be true, the news here is that DDG is growing where other search platforms like: Excite, AltaVista, Yahoo. AOL. AlltheWeb, Magellan, Lycos have declined.  And DDG has grown in spite of the full bore established monopoly dominance of Google - or perhaps because of it.