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The curious case of DuckDuckGo

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Re: The curious case of DuckDuckGo

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I didn't know about duck.com. Does anyone know the story behind that?

From a previous discussion on it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 here's a quote from Gabriel: """To be fair, it came as an asset in an unrelated acquisition (On2). But it just sat their (pointing to this Duck Corporation history page) for a long time. I first inquired about it on 11/4/09. After several attempts, I got back a response "from management" on 3/25/10 that they didn't want to sell it. Understan…

Thank you, that was very helpful and informative.
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