In 2020, DuckDuckGo increased its average daily search by 62%, ending the year with 23.6 billion searches. According to statcounter, DuckDuckGo's 2.4B searches during December 2020 consisted of only 0.6% of the global searches performed that month.

Search Engine Search %
Google 91.4%
bing 2.7%
Yahoo! 1.5%
Baidu 1.4%
YANDEX 1.0%
DuckDuckGo 0.6%

Courtesy of Google, the top 10 trending search terms in the United States during 2020 were:

  1. Election results
  2. Coronavirus
  3. Kobe Bryant
  4. Coronavirus update
  5. Coronavirus symptoms
  6. Zoom
  7. Who is winning the election
  8. Naya Rivera
  9. Chadwick Boseman
  10. PlayStation 5

For more trending search terms both nationally and globally, click here.