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DuckDuckGo: How to Not to Be Evil

Education — Book on DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you — Google is not the web but one of th…
EducationPartly defensible · brand moat (moderate)mediaest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
21
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 21 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
21 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 21 probesavg response 2469 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
publishizer.com
edge
direct origin
server
nginx
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

DuckDuckGo: How to Not to Be Evil's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Dr Pallavi Kwatraentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.50.0● live
The Questeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Warrior Ethosentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Defining Marriageentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
The One Deviceentertainmenttag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected
Mr. Norris Changes Trainsentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Rain: A Natural and Cultural Historyentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Istvan Kiraly V.entertainmenttag-overlap100%8.50.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelmedia
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:30Z200publishizer.comnginx1929alive
2026-08-17 13:14Z200publishizer.comnginx1832alive
2026-08-09 19:09Z200publishizer.comnginx1992alive
2026-08-08 04:13Z200publishizer.comnginx4754alive
2026-07-31 15:12Z200publishizer.comnginx1788alive
2026-07-26 17:06Z200publishizer.comnginx1733alive
2026-07-18 13:51Z200publishizer.comnginx2023alive
2026-07-13 13:39Z200publishizer.comnginx3653alive
2026-07-04 15:45Z200publishizer.comnginx3425alive
2026-07-03 00:23Z200publishizer.comnginx2217alive
2026-06-24 10:40Z200publishizer.comnginx1563alive
2026-06-22 13:10Z200publishizer.comnginx5071alive
2026-06-21 10:32Z200publishizer.comnginx1112alive
2026-06-20 00:33Z200publishizer.comnginx1474alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · DuckDuckGo: How to Not to Be Evil · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/duckduckgo-how-to-not-to-be-evil · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.