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DuckDuckGo named to TIME’s 50 best websites of 2011

Thanks to an agressive privacy policy and a simple homepage, TIME is digging Gabe Weinberg’s DuckDuckGo search engine as the anti-Google. From TIME: It doesn’t involve e-mail, maps, real-time results or social networking. It’s just a simple, straightforward search engine that’s reminiscent of early Google, with a no-nonsense privacy policy (it will not store any […]

Thanks to an agressive privacy policy and a simple homepage, TIME is digging Gabe Weinberg’s DuckDuckGo search engine as the anti-Google. From TIME:

It doesn’t involve e-mail, maps, real-time results or social networking. It’s just a simple, straightforward search engine that’s reminiscent of early Google, with a no-nonsense privacy policy (it will not store any information that could tie you to your searches). Best of all, the results are dependably relevant and devoid of spam.

Based in Valley Forge, Weinberg is also behind the Open Angel Forum and keeps an active blog about his startup efforts including a post on how he was selected for the list:

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