DuckDuckGo Receives $10M Financing to Expand Global Impact

DuckDuckGo is receiving US 0-million investment through partnership with OMERS to help the engine continue expanding its protection worldwide..   OMERS, is one of Canada's largest pension funds..   Chief Executive of OMERS Ventures, John Ruffalo, tells The Global and Mail that they went out very aggressively to pursue DuckDuckGo..   OMERS believes that the public is now starting to realize what it's giving up as result of other tech giants misusing data and user privacy.. is the leading company that's figured out business model.   It's proving that, in search, it's possible to both make money and respect privacy and data sovereignty...   DuckDuckGo does have it figured out, so to speak, having been profitable company since 2014..   DuckDuckGo has data to back up OMERS statement that the public is growing more interested privacy.   In July 2018 survey of 667 Canadian adults, we found that 43% have taken action, such as installing browser extensions to block web trackers...   Perhaps more importantly, DuckDuckGo hit daily direct search record of 25,568,558 private searches..   o its search engine, available on the web and through its mobile apps, DuckDuckGo also offers extension that comes with tracker blocking, encryption, and website privacy grades..   Read more