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Inside DuckDuckGo

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

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In this episode, Beah (Chief Product Officer) and Chris (Partnerships) discuss the DuckDuckGo Subscription: the core protections, private AI, and how the new Pro-tier serves AI power users.

If you have feedback on Duck Tales, or episode ideas, emai... more

In this episode, Beah (Chief Product Officer) and Mihai (Design) discuss how the Duck.ai team prioritizes what to build, how we use research and user feedback, and a demo of recent UX updates.

If you have feedback on Duck Tales, or episode ideas, e... more

In this episode, Beah (Chief Product Officer) and Marc (VP, Engineering) discuss how we create, communicate, and challenge operational defaults to make better decisions at speed.

If you have feedback on Duck Tales, or episode ideas, email us at pod... more

In this episode, Cristina (CMO) and Zack (Senior Director, Marketing) discuss our new Duck.ai ad, how we develop, test, and measure creative and campaigns, and why we do a lot of the work in-house.

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Recent Guests

Zack Einhorn
Marketing team member at DuckDuckGo, guest on episode
DuckDuckGo
Episode: Duck Tales: Our first major Duck.ai ad, and how we develop creative at DuckDuckGo (Ep.38)
Zac Pappas
Insights team member at DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo
Episode: Duck Tales: The role of user research, A/B testing, and "dogfooding" at DuckDuckGo (Ep.31)
Caine Tighe
CTO of DuckDuckGo
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Episode: Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo is building its own web search index (Ep.22)
John Bolo
Member of PeopleOps; focuses on Meetups and culture
DuckDuckGo
Episode: Duck Tales: How we work at DuckDuckGo — remote-first, with memorable meetups (Ep20).
John Bourscheid
Co-founder of Removaly and member of the marketing and communications team at DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo
Episode: Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo acquired Removaly to expand its privacy offering (Ep.19)
Dave Harbage
Privacy engineer at DuckDuckGo focused on identifying privacy threats and building protective features.
DuckDuckGo
Episode: Duck Tales: How DuckDuckGo blocks trackers on third-party websites (Ep.17)
Tim Raybould
Leads development at DuckDuckGo.
DuckDuckGo
Episode: Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo Added the ‘More’ Button for AI-Assisted Answers (Episode 1)

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Beah
Host on privacy-focused product development and UX discussions, often guiding the interview flow.
Cristina
Host from the DuckDuckGo marketing team, introduces topics and guides conversations.

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 18 ratings
  • Guests could use a better mic

    Maybe DuckDuckGo could afford to send a mid-range/speech focused microphones to their employees/podcast guests

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    Akira Taguchi
    Finland6 months ago

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The show delivers practical, product-focused insights with clear, candid conversations.
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Talking Points

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Duck Tales: How we're making it easier to use Duck.ai, our private AI chat. (Ep.40)
Q: What was a difficult or not obvious design decision you've had to make recently?
Mihai discusses the challenge of switching between models and how a more linear, pagination-like presentation of responses fits a chat interface better, ultimately simplifying user interaction and maintaining clarity about available options.
Duck Tales: How we're making it easier to use Duck.ai, our private AI chat. (Ep.40)
Q: Can you give me an example of a UX improvement that you've worked on recently?
Mihai describes the dictation feature and how it improves accessibility, including visible status cues, a transformed input area, and transcription feedback, showing how the team balances user requests with technical feasibility.
Duck Tales: AI in the DuckDuckGo browser — private, useful & optional (Ep.36)
Q: Is there, like, what's your favorite thing about how AI is integrated into our browsers?
The favorite aspect is the ability to attach page context to chats when browsing, which lets the user summarize a page and then discuss it in a chat, creating a seamless bridge between browsing and conversational AI.
Duck Tales: Voice-mode in Duck.ai. The private, hands-free way to chat with popular AIs (Ep.34)
Q: Tell me Fran, like do you have either a favorite thing or a favorite use case about voice chat?
A favorite use case is to speak freely to capture a stream of thoughts, then have the model summarize or clarify, which helps convert ideas into concrete next steps or messages, especially when multitasking or walking and thinking aloud.
Duck Tales: Dax (our mascot) is coming to the physical world, on shoes, shirts, and security keys (Ep.32).
Q: Gabriel, could you tell us a little bit about the YubiKey and why it fits the DuckDuckGo brand?
The YubiKey is a physical security device that complements DuckDuckGo's privacy features, offering a practical, hardware-based way to log in securely; it's a natural extension of the mutual goal to improve user protection beyond software.

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What is Inside DuckDuckGo about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show centers on behind-the-scenes insights from the DuckDuckGo team, with a strong focus on product development, UX decisions, privacy, and AI integration. Episodes frequently explore how user feedback, research, and internal bets shape features—from privacy-first AI helpers to local search, sync, and ad-blocking in browsers. A notable strength is the candid, practical look at trade-offs, iteration speed, and cross-functional collaboration, often with hands-on demos and design rationales. Overall, listeners get a product- and engineering-led tour of privacy-preserving tech and the people driving it, complemented by real-world examples and in-progress feature previews that feel actionable for product teams, marketers, and tech enthusias... more

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