A new update to the tech that underpins Google Chrome includes some good news for a local company: Google Chrome users in 60 countries can now easily select Paoli-based DuckDuckGo as their preferred search engine.

TechCrunch reports that the inclusion of DuckDuckGo to the default list of alternative search engines was added on Tuesday, in version 73 of the Chromium engine. Previously, users could manually add DuckDuckGo as their preferred search option, but this puts the privacy-minded search engine in the same drop-down category as Bing, Yahoo! and AOL.

“We’re glad that Google has recognized the importance of offering consumers a private search option,” DuckDuckGo founder Gabe Weinbergtold the national tech news site.

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