Search Engine DuckDuckGo Has Record Day with 1 Million Searches

DuckDuckGo has been seeing record traffic lately, as revealed by its own traffic page. Now, it's crossed the one million daily searches milestone. Of course, that's still way below the big boys, even search engines like AOL or Ask.com, but traffic is growing consistently and considerably, something that can't be said for any of the big search engines and few of the smaller ones.

The site came close to crossing the milestone on January 30th, it was less than 20,000 searches short, and that was just a week after it set a record of over 730,000 searches in a day.

On February 13 though, it saw 1,067,006 direct searches. It got ten times as many, 10,067,826 searches via its API.

The site had 19.5 million searches in January, but may cross the 30 million searches mark this month if the trend continues. AOL had 277 million searches in January in the US alone, Google had 11,8 billion.