Where does DuckDuckGo get the money to keep this service alive?
Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just say "I'm going to search for x" now and avoid the company name entirely. Although as noted by a person responding here "I'll duck it" wouldn't be bad.
I'm not sure how regional this is, but at least around the North of England that'd be interpreted as someone saying they were trying to avoid something.
English is not my native language, but I think this is universal. I also think that's why the GP likes the phrase.
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#143Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#144This is not charity. Google needs DDG to exist, because Google is a monopoly. That economic reality is increasingly translating into political calls for GOOG to be broken up. Supporting DDG is just Google preparing for future legal and legislative/regulatory battles. They can point to DDG and say, "Look! There is another search company!" Google also probably accelerated this potential action to this week because they…
> Google needs DDG to exist
DDG is just a frontend to Bing. They need Bing to exist, not DDG.
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#145What? that was weirdly nice of Google to do this. I'm very shocked at this.
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#146No mention of a sale? That seems so strange. I cant think of any other times that a business has given charity to a direct competitor like this.
not exactly charity but something similar happened between Microsoft and Apple: https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0806/ (Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued — by Microsoft)
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#147Don't fall for it duckduckgo! If you change your name to duck, your name will no longer be searchable! It's a trap!
When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
To add to the "did it come first list", search from the
Netherlands:
1st is EN wikipedia with "Duck"
2nd is DuckDuckGo
3rd and on is several restaurants with "duck" in the name.
So it probably is location/language related to some extend.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
In terms of names it's the GoDaddy of search engines.
I didn't understand that.
GoDaddy manages to seem even more of a cheesy web 1.0 company than they are because of the name. It's like a TV ad company for the whole family, not something a programmer would find pleasing to behold.
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#149Where does DuckDuckGo get the money to keep this service alive?
I actually click on sponsored links just to help DDG.
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#150DDG is great - have been using it for months and I really enjoy the results. Google searches seem to be more of an echo chamber whereas DDG results seem to be more representative across a broad spectrum of sites.
I always made sure to log out of Google to avoid this issue, however after a couple of years using the Duck the main thing I notice when I end up on Google is how cluttered the search results have become. You have a bunch of widgets everywhere trying to give you "smart" results, related searches etc... Usually when I search for something I don't care about any of that, I just want to see the organic matches, not "Peo…
> I always made sure to log out of Google to avoid this issue
Does this work? I was under the impression that had little to no impact on their tracking/suggestions for "personalization" purposes