--- title: "Celebrating 15 Years of DuckDuckGo" url: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-15-years-of-duckduckgo-68b2y9pfd source_url: https://spreadprivacy.com/15-years-of-duckduckgo/ type: article source: "Spread Privacy" published: 2023-09-25T13:54:01.940Z updated: 2023-09-25T13:53:41.423Z tags: ["tech-news", "google", "privacy", "browsers"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 19 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Celebrating 15 Years of DuckDuckGo **[Spread Privacy](https://daily.dev/sources/spreadprivacy)** · 7 min read · 19 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary 15 years ago, Gabriel Weinberg launched DuckDuckGo from his basement in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, hoping to offer a user-centric alternative to Google. Today it’s a free, mobile and desktop browser with our private search engine built-in. We’ve been an independent company since our founding in 2008. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@akacharava** · 2 upvotes > Great to see a different company trying to compete against Google for the benefit of the users! Privacy is an issue on the web in general, and it would be great to see others join in as well ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#browsers](https://daily.dev/tags/browsers) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-15-years-of-duckduckgo-68b2y9pfd)