Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor

In 2008, launching a search engine seemed like a crazy idea. Here’s how Gabriel Weinberg proved the critics wrong. When Gabriel Weinberg launched a search engine in 2008, plenty of people thought he was insane. How could DuckDuckGo, a tiny, Philadelphia-based startup, go up against Google? One way, he wagered, was by respecting user privacy. Six years later, we’re living in the post-Snowden era, a