DuckDuckGo is by no means the world’s most popular web search engine, running around 33 million daily direct queries on average nowadays, which may sound impressive... until you realize Google processes more than 5 billion searches every day, according to the latest estimations.

But DuckDuckGo has been growing at a steady pace since its introduction around a decade ago while making a solemn pledge to always respect the privacy of its users. Seeing as how Apple has a similar objective, repeatedly highlighting the need for strong laws protecting companies that put privacy and security over ...