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Inside DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo

Behind the scenes with the DuckDuckGo team — sharing insights on product, engineering, leadership, and AI. insideduckduckgo.substack.com

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47 episodes

  1. Duck Tales: The performance review process at DuckDuckGo (Ep.47) 13:27
  2. Duck Tales: The team and process behind DuckDuckGo’s customer support (Ep.46) 17:42
  3. Duck Tales: How we use AI at DuckDuckGo while staying true to our principles (Ep.45) 16:48
  4. Duck Tales: DuckDuckGo will find and remove your personal information — like your name and email — from sites that store and sell it (Ep.44) 19:01
  5. Duck Tales: The 3Ds of DuckDuckGo. Delight, discovery, and dependability (Ep.43) 19:54
  6. Duck Tales: 32% of AI users tell AI things they've kept from other people. Our new study on AI's privacy problem (Ep.42) 30:39
  7. Duck Tales: The DuckDuckGo Subscription Pro-tier — private AI for AI power users (Ep.41) 22:31
  8. Duck Tales: How we're making it easier to use Duck.ai, our private AI chat. (Ep.40) 24:31
  9. Duck Tales: How we use mental models and operational defaults to improve decision making (Ep.39) 17:15
  10. Duck Tales: Our first major Duck.ai ad, and how we develop creative at DuckDuckGo (Ep.38) 15:49
  11. Duck Tales: The DuckDuckGo browser now blocks ads on YouTube videos, so you can watch without interruption (Ep.37) 12:09
  12. Duck Tales: AI in the DuckDuckGo browser — private, useful & optional (Ep.36) 21:57
  13. Duck Tales: AI optionality, and why DuckDuckGo installs are up ~40% since Google swapped search for AI mode (Ep.35) 14:20
  14. Duck Tales: Voice-mode in Duck.ai. The private, hands-free way to chat with popular AIs (Ep.34) 13:40
  15. Duck Tales: How we've made it easier to generate images privately in Duck.ai (Ep.33) 13:46
  16. Duck Tales: Dax (our mascot) is coming to the physical world, on shoes, shirts, and security keys (Ep.32). 23:35
  17. Duck Tales: The role of user research, A/B testing, and "dogfooding" at DuckDuckGo (Ep.31) 19:20
  18. Duck Tales: How DuckDuckGo provides useful “near me” search results, while keeping your location private. 14:03
  19. Duck Tales: How DuckDuckGo uses data science to measure marketing effectiveness, privately (Ep.29) 12:05
  20. Duck Tales: The fire button, a delightful way to delete your browsing data (Ep.28) 19:39
  21. Duck Tales: How we privately sync bookmarks, passwords & AI chats across your devices, without you needing an account (Ep.27) 16:31
  22. Duck Tales: How we build, design, and trigger instant answers on DuckDuckGo search (Ep.26) 18:48
  23. Duck Tales: Hack Days at DuckDuckGo — why we do them, and the role of trust (Ep.25) 20:14
  24. Duck Tales: DuckDuckGo browser updates — custom themes and password manager (Ep.24) 14:15
  25. Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo is giving users a choice about if and how they use AI (Ep.23) 20:17
  26. Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo is building its own web search index (Ep.22) 13:14
  27. Duck Tales: Browser onboarding — why first impressions matter, user education, and the role of personality (Ep.21) 22:08
  28. Duck Tales: How we work at DuckDuckGo — remote-first, with memorable meetups (Ep20). 27:53
  29. Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo acquired Removaly to expand its privacy offering (Ep.19) 11:13
  30. Duck Tales: Duck Sans — designing a typeface that balances functionality and brand (ep.18) 23:35
  31. Duck Tales: How DuckDuckGo blocks trackers on third-party websites (Ep.17) 15:14
  32. Duck Tales: Yes AI or No AI? The thinking behind DuckDuckGo’s public AI vote (Ep.16) 17:36
  33. Duck Tales: Duck Player — a free, private way to watch YouTube videos, with fewer ads & no distractions (Ep.15) 12:33
  34. Duck Tales: Building useful, private, optional AI directly into search, with Search Assist (Ep.14) 20:49
  35. Duck Tales: DuckDuckGo donations — why we’ve donated $8M+ to organizations that align with our vision (Episode 13) 19:32
  36. Duck Tales: Hiring at DuckDuckGo, and why we have a 95% employee retention rate (Episode 12) 19:55
  37. Duck Tales: How DuckDuckGo makes the sites you visit less annoying and more private (Episode 11) 14:45
  38. Duck Tales: The DuckDuckGo Subscription — more protection & peace of mind (Episode 10) 25:49
  39. Duck Tales: Marketing at DuckDuckGo — how we practice the privacy we preach (Episode 9) 9:32
  40. Duck Tales: Improving AI chat organization, and feature decisions at DuckDuckGo (Episode 8) 11:52
  41. Duck Tales: How DuckDuckGo protects users from different types of scams (Episode 7) 14:57
  42. Duck Tales: The internet’s privacy problem, and how DuckDuckGo is solving it (Episode 6) 16:18
  43. Duck Tales: More ways to customize DuckDuckGo — now you can exclude certain websites from search results (episode 5) 14:57
  44. Duck Tales: Delight at DuckDuckGo — and why we’ve created 350+ versions of our mascot (Dax the Duck) (Episode 4) 23:04
  45. Duck Tales: DuckDuckGo now lets you customize the ‘personality’ of AI responses (episode 3) 18:45
  46. Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo built a way to filter out AI-generated images (episode 2) 13:29
  47. Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo Added the ‘More’ Button for AI-Assisted Answers (Episode 1) 14:03