Edward Snowden, the individual responsible for one of the most significant information leaks in US history, decided on Tuesday that it was time to call out Google’s search engine.

StartPage and Ixquick experienced a noticeable surge in traffic in June 2013 when Edward Snowden began leaking details of government Internet snooping programs, like PRISM.

Has Edward Snowden changed the way we think about search engines? DuckDuckGo, a browser which doesn't track your online activity, has increased its traffic six-fold since the Snowden revelations.