Google recently added App Privacy labels to its Google Search app, spelling out the extent of information that's collected. Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. Staff authors are listed here.After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Indeed, Google has more than 100X the daily global search volume of DuckDuckGo.

(Search ads on DuckDuckGo are syndicated through Bing and Yahoo.) Its traffic remains a tiny fraction of Google’s. If the company’s user base continues to grow ( 50 percent year over year), it will start to be a more attractive place for paid-search advertisers. The search engine’s growth roughly parallels growing popular concern over online privacy. In October DuckDuckGo announced that it was processing roughly 30 million queries per day. However, DuckDuckGo says it immediately discards the data after the session and never stores user location in its server logs. The company explains that location sharing will deliver better data from the browser to DuckDuckGo. In such circumstances it invites users to share location with DuckDuckGo for better results. It also stressed that it doesn’t send any personally identifiable information to Apple or any other third parties in the process of delivering map results.ĭuckDuckGo uses IP lookups to provide anonymous local results, which may be relatively imprecise - especially for mobile users. While Apple Maps and Google Maps are visually quite different, many users may not immediately notice the change from OpenStreetMap.Ĭurrent DuckDuckGo Map Results (“Pizza in Cupertino”)ĭuckDuckGo Apple MapKit Powered Results (“Pizza in Cupertino”)ĭuckDuckGo said it it’s one of the first global companies using Apple MapKit JS. The company had been using OpenStreetMap (and MapBox) for local results. Today DuckDuckGo announced it was adopting Apple’s MapKit JS framework for both desktop and mobile searches.Īll the features available in Apple Maps will now be available for local and map-based searches on DuckDuckGo. Last June, Apple launched MapKit JS for third-party developers and publishers as an alternative to Google Maps.

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