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Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
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#182reminder that most praise you find about DDG in popular online communities (e.g. HN, Reddit, /g/, etc...) is mostly by their own paid influencers and shills, Weinberg even bragged about it once on Quora and deleted it later.
The only question that he cares about: what's his exit number?
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean it's bigger than DDG?
Well only because DDG aggregates some of their stuff plus Microsoft ship everything to glue into Bing (windows login screens / default browser config / Cortana / XBox). I know no one who consciously uses it to do anything other than my mother who uses it search for Google. If none of the other default integrations exist it'd be dead on it's arse.
I use it consciously! I'd rather not support Google, and after a few comparison searches between DDG and Google back in the day I used Google, I found DDG to be far inferior.
Plus Bing has nice background images (I use it as my homepage).
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#184No 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.
There's no reasonable amount of money that Google can charge for this that will make up for the amount of meetings they'd need to correctly determine the amount and get all the signoffs for it, and charging for it would also negatively impact the PR for it.
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#185I use also use ddg, but maps.google is far better for maps. So I mix both, using an addon, I can right click an address and send to google maps. Its a nice compromise.
maps.google.com is good for navigation but if you want to search for things and especially if you want to search for multiple things at once, bing is far better.
Here's an example: https://binged.it/2EhrUDm I don't think you can line up multiple searches like that on Google. It's far and away my favorite feature of Bing.
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#186I use also use ddg, but maps.google is far better for maps. So I mix both, using an addon, I can right click an address and send to google maps. Its a nice compromise.
you can also just add `!gm` to your query and it will then populate Google Maps with it :)
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#188Though this is a good move, DuckDuckGo should really try and work toward taking ownership of http://ddg.com . With the 'D' and 'G' key separated by just one key in between on a standard QWERTY keyboard, this should really make it exponentially easier to get to DuckDuckGo's homepage.
They already have ddg.gg which is even easier to input. Not that owning ddg.com as well would be a bad thing, though.
Also ddg.co
ddg.gg is the easiest to type, but would be a strange URL to send to a (non technical) person.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
You had to already know about it though. That is a foul. Or, more accurately, a water-foul.
You're making me feel down, Ma' llard. My wife and I used to breed ducks and have a duck farm. We were quack addicts, and quack dealers. I could go on and on.
Please do.