DuckDuckGo started as a browser and search engine that pledges to keep your search activity anonymous ... If it isn't ...

DuckDuckGo is a search engine run by one man out of Pennsylvania, Gabriel Weinberg. (He sold his previous startup so he can afford to do this.) Hadn't heard about it? Well, we had, but that's our job.

Back in the day, there were options when it came to search. Choosing between AOL, Yahoo, or Alta Vista kind of just depended on your ... engine is going to rival Google Search, it might be DuckDuckGo.