Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-defunct social network. History ĭuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

The company name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose. The company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, in Greater Philadelphia, United States, and had 200 employees as of November 2022. The company emphasizes privacy and anonymity in part to avoid the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo offers a number of products oriented towards helping people protect their privacy online, most notably, a private search engine, a tracker-blocking browser extension, email protection and app tracking protection.

September 25, 2008 15 years ago ( ) ĭuckDuckGo ( DDG) is an internet privacy company.