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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 18, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: DuckDuckGo Passes 3 Million Searches, Just 8 Days After Hitting 2 Million Another week, another traffic record in the alternative search engine space. DuckDuckGo (DDG) tweeted this morning about its latest […]

Barry Schwartz on June 18, 2013 at 5:06 pm | Reading time: 7 minutes

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.

From Search Engine Land:

DuckDuckGo Passes 3 Million Searches, Just 8 Days After Hitting 2 Million
Another week, another traffic record in the alternative search engine space. DuckDuckGo (DDG) tweeted this morning about its latest milestone: more than three million direct searches in a single day. As the company’s traffic page shows, it happened on Monday when DDG had 3,095,907 “direct searches.” Those are searches done by human visitors to duckduckgo.com. […]
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