However, here's what could eventually cost Google market share: The contradiction between what searchers say they want and how they actually behave. Microsoft's ( MSFT 1.44%) Bing (18.2%) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) (10.8%) are battling it out for a distant second and third. These numbers pale in comparison to Google ( GOOGL 0.27%), which serves up more than 3 billion queries a day – and has about 70% of the search engine market. Ixquick, also known as, has doubled its traffic since then, growing from 2.5 million visitors a day to around 5 million. Currently, DuckDuckGo has 4.7 million users a day – and its traffic skyrocketed 50% on June 6, 2013, when news of the government's "PRISM Program" went public. ![]() Leading anonymous search engines, like DuckDuckGo and Ixquick, watched their traffic explode after Snowden's revelations became public. ![]() Privacy is in, especially since Edward Snowden made Internet searchers aware of how their personal data was being collected by the National Security Agency.
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