We have an instant answer platform with over 500 sources and we need to know which are up and down, for example. We have a lot of internal monitoring of results and systems to make sure things are working.
What kinds of internal monitoring do you do of results? We really applied the framework from the book - we’ve switched channels 5 times: SEO to content marketing to social ads to publicity to business development and now are looking for another channel. Nope, we have a very strict privacy policy that is central to our mission: Ĭan you share a couple anecdotes of how you gained traction with DuckDuckGo? What are the top 3 data problems you run into at DuckDuckGo?ġ) data that costs money 2) synchronizing data across the world 3) getting data feeds fast in real timeĮver thought of monetizing your data through other means… like selling it to Ahrefs or something? Several – you should start getting traction immediately when starting to develop a project: What’s the most surprising insight you had from creating Traction (great book, btw– I must have recommended it to a dozen people by now)? Nope - no Google APIs used except YouTube API for video results. Doesn’t share our vision, etc.ĭoes the DuckDuckGo algorithm piggyback off Google? My last company had no employees and I wrote everything.īunch of things - not credible offer or company. I was a solo founder without any employees for the first three and half years, writing the vast majority of the code (just outsourced our mobile apps). Yes, we’ve had acquisition offers right from the beginning, but nothing that we’ve gotten too serious about. Hi all, great to be here! I’m the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo ( ), the search engine that doesn’t track you, and the co-author of Traction ( ), the book that helps startups get traction (2nd edition came out yesterday).Īnyone in the past or present looking to acquire you guys? This transcript has been edited for punctuation, grammar, etc. The Q&A Session with Gabriel Weinberg was held on October 7th, 2016.
Gabriel Weinberg – Founder & CEO, DuckDuckGo – Transcript
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