On the Internetlivestats website, they are talking of 3.5 billions searches per day for Google(1). On the duckduckgo website, they are saying they serve 7 millions queries per day(2). So DuckDuckGo does 0.2% of the amount of Google. Please correct me is my logic is flawed.
What's the estimate market share of DuckDuckGo today, that's the real question.
Do they dominate a niche? I think they have significant market share among HackerNews users.