Search engine DuckDuckGo — which emphasises protecting a searcher 's privacy — has carried out more than 30 million direct searches in a single day , achieving the milestone twice in a week . DuckDuckGo claimed 16 million searches per day in January , a figure set to double by the end of the year . It's not just Google, either. Despite its robust growth , the company is dwarfed by several rivals , not least behemoth Google , which notches up 3.5 billion searches daily , as well as Yahoo and Bing .
Search engine DuckDuckGo — which emphasises protecting a searcher 's privacy — has carried out more than 30 million direct searches in a single day , achieving the milestone twice in a week . DuckDuckGo claimed 16 million searches per day in January , a figure set to double by the end of the year . Despite its robust growth , the company is dwarfed by several rivals , not least behemoth Google , which notches up 3.5 billion searches daily , as well as Yahoo and Bing .