But DuckDuckGo is the most significant thing to happen to the search world since Page and Brin founded Google back in 1998. Some of you may not have heard of DuckDuckGo, as it operates quietly with very little advertisement.

At the time, Weinberg was in his 20s, married and had cash to spare and nothing to do with it, until he thought of DuckDuckGo. Back in 2006, Weinberg sold ' The Names Database' to for around $10 million. And, up until now, no-one has come close to toppling them. Google is, to some, 'the Internet' the place where you start your Internet experience.

From humble beginnings, Google has grown to dominate over 70% of the search engine market, 60% of the smartphone operating system market and has made billions and billions of dollars in the process. Their names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and they had just founded Google. In 1998, two college friends decided to build a method of analysing every website on the Internet to find the most relevant information when a user put in a small amount of text.

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