

Here’s another fun fact about daily searches:

However, we can also see that search volumes increased by 1.2 million in August, which suggests the tide may be starting to turn in DuckDuckGo’s favor once again. The backlash this sparked might have had something to do with the decline in daily searches. Around that time, a security researcher found that the mobile DuckDuckGo browser wasn’t blocking Microsoft trackers on third-party websites due to a ‘search syndication agreement’. This drop coincided with DuckDuckGo’s privacy blunder. The biggest drop was from March to April, when average daily searches dropped below 100million for the first time in 2022. Here’s a breakdown of average daily search volumes for each month this year:Īs you can see, daily average search volumes peaked in January 2022 and have been dropping since then. One of the main questions people want to know is: is DuckDuckGo growing? To answer that question, we can look at the average daily search volumes across the year and see if they’re trending up or down.
