Duck Duck Go served 1,182,204 result pages last month. You can now track the progress (or lack thereof ☺) on the new traffic page. As you can see, this month is on track for a bit more.
Thank you to everyone who's been spreading DDG for helping to make these traffic #s happen. And a special thanks to the reddit & Hacker News communities for being so supportive.
I'm also now accepting DDG sponsorship. I just put a square 85 pixel sponsor banner on the right bar.
For those users who hate ads, note that there is already a setting to hide the right bar, and if enough people request it, I'll create another one just to hide the sponsor banner (within the right bar). However, I plan to only accept high quality sponsors and banners.
Sponsorship is exclusive. That is, there will only be one sponsor at a time, on a weekly or monthly basis. The sponsor banner will display on all search result pages.
The new traffic page is meant to count exactly those (sponsored) page views. Pages without search results, e.g. the homepage, about page, etc., are not counted. Also, if someone clicks 'More links...' on a search results page, that is not counted as another page. For example, if someone clicked 'More links...' five times that would still just be one page.
I have no idea what to expect so this program may fail fast. (This program is modeled after Daring Fireball's sponsorship program.) I will keep the traffic page up regardless though.
The initial sponsorship rate is $1.5K/week or $5K/month, subject to increases based on demand. To kick things off, any sponsor who pays before the end of this month can get a discounted rate of $1K/week or $3.5K/month for up to two months (pre-paid). Of course, please let me know if you have any questions.