DuckDuckGo: A Single Founder Gets An Army Of Fans To Take On Google – with Gabriel Weinberg

Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo, Scaling, Traffic

How does a single founder go up against Google in search and actually get traction?

Joining me is Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, a search engine that has had about 10 million direct queries per month, and recently raised $3 million from some of the smartest investors in the business.

Oh, and Time Magazine called DuckDuckGo one of the top 50 best sites of 2011.

Gabriel Weinberg

DuckDuckGo

Gabriel Weinberg is the founder of DuckDuckGo, a search engine.

 

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