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		Drakim on June 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA sur... Yeah. If they went from 1 to 6 users it wouldn't be impressive at all, so "600%" is meaningless by itself.

monk_e_boy on June 17, 2015 [–]

I think it's pretty meaningful for the exact reasons you state.

If they had gone up millions then they would have used real numbers. Therefore the actual numbers are still pretty low.

vidarh on June 17, 2015 | | [–]

Here are the actual numbers:

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

sp332 on June 17, 2015 | | [–]

You're wrong. It went up by 5.5 million.

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