DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year
> “Our biggest challenge is that most people have not heard of us,” Weinberg says. “We very much want to break out into the mainstream.”<p>It won't help at all if more people get to know of DDG and then leave it after a single trial because the results are not great.<p>I value privacy a lot and want something like DDG to succeed and become really big, but I get frustrated very often with DDG. I know many people are very happy with the results from DDG. For <i>most of my searches</i> though (on technical and other matters), I end up doing a second search on Start Page or Google because DDG still does not have search by date and the search results are nowhere close to Google.<p>I do have and use DDG as my default search engine in the hope that DDG keeps analyzing the volume of !s or !g queries as an indicator of how much DDG is lacking and takes action to improve it.