'''Duck Duck Go''' is a [[privacy]]-oriented general purpose [[search engine]] with a focus on privacy of user experience, founded by the company [[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]], Gabriel Weinberg.<ref>[http://duckduckgo.com/Gabriel_Weinberg Duck Duck Go (Founder and CEO)]</ref>Duck Duck Go company headquarters is based out of Valley Forge, [[Pennsylvania]]. The company business plan is to allow users to find the most relevant information related to their search topic, faster, and without all the "garbage" of search result pages found in other search engines.<ref>CJ. [http://www.scienceforseo.com/search-engines/duck-duck-go/ Duck Duck Go!], ''Science for SEO'', March 2009.</ref> The website also collects less marketing data than other search engines thereby respecting the privacy of its users.
==Search Goals==
===Spam solution===
Duck Duck Go partnered with [[The Parked Domains Project]], which regularly crawls the [[World Wide Web|Web]] and marks [[spam]] and parked domains; Duck Duck Go omits all domains marked as spam. The search engine also uses human policed sources like [[Wikipedia]] and [[Conservapedia]], placing links from these sources (note not just to them, but from them), above algorithmically generated links. The CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, explained, "We've gone out and found entries in about a hundred other human-powered sites that are policed for spam. We use their APIs and extract the info. [...] As a result, our links are doubly controlled for spam."<ref name=fast/>
==Why Does it Matter That Duck Duck Go is Privacy Oriented==
The reason it matters to [[conservative]]s, who are inherently against [[big government]], that Duck Duck Go is one of the very few privacy oriented search engines is best explained by this apt quote:
* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with [[wiretap]]ping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every man in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no protection against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
==See Also==
* [[Google]], [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]]
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* [[Censorship]]
* [[Tools of censorship]]
* [[Censorability]]
* [[Fairness Doctrine]]
* [[Liberal censorship]]
* [[Media censorship]]
* [[Prism-break.org]] - Opt out of global data [[surveillance]] and [[unconstitutional]] mass [[United States of America|domestic]] [[wiretap]] programs like [[PRISM]], [[XKeyscore]] and [[Tempora]].<ref>"Help make [[mass surveillance]] of entire populations uneconomical! We all have an [[unalienable right]] to [[privacy]], which you can exercise today by [[encrypting]] your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary products and services."</ref>
== References ==
* [http://duckduckgo.com/blog/ Duck Duck Blog]
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