DuckDuckGo, Riding Privacy Trend, Releases Anonymous Mobile Search Apps

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that does not profile its users or personalize their results, released its search app today for iPhone and iPod, riding a wave of increasing interest in its products since it was revealed in early June that competing search engines share at least some data on users with the U.S. government.

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that does not profile its users or personalize their results, released its search app today for iPhone and iPod, riding a wave of increasing interest in its products since it was revealed in early June that competing search engines share at least some data on users with the U.S. government.

The company also updated its Android app.

The app provides trending images and news stories as a home page, which it accomplishes based on which stories have been most shared on social networks in a given day.

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