DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that promotes privacy, founded by the American entrepreneur Gabriel Weinberg. It does not track users' searches or build personalized profiles of them, in contrast to the practices of the largest search companies. It draws on results from a range of sources, including its own crawler and partner search services, and it earns money from ads linked to the search term and not to the user. Features include so-called bang shortcuts that send a query directly to another site. Interest in the service rose strongly after the revelations about government surveillance in 2013, and the company later added a privacy-focused browser, an email forwarding service and other tools.
Before and after
- 10 September 2008The Large Hadron Collider starts up
- 14 September 2008Publication of The Hunger Games
- from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015Premiere of The Mentalist
- 23 September 2008Creation of Android
- 25 September 2008Release of DuckDuckGo
- 25 September 2008Launch of Shenzhou 7
- October 2008Construction of Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
- 22 October 2008Launch of Chandrayaan-1
- 22 October 2008Founding of Google Play
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- 1950Discovery of californium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
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