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nl on March 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: DuckDuckGo is blowing up

Wed 28-Mar-2012 1,518,581 direct 9,580,029 api 225,161 bot

Am I reading this right? DDG does ~6 times as much traffic in API requests compared to search requests?

That makes a pretty significant difference to the monetisation strategy!

jeltz on March 30, 2012 | [–]

Note though that the growth of direct requests is much faster than the growth of API requests.

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