Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo • Hacker News Board

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by reaperducer » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:41 PM UTC

kevindqc wrote: post #37

projectramo wrote: post #6

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You had to already know about it though. That is a foul. Or, more accurately, a water-foul.

It's the second result on Google, too: https://www.google.com/search?q=duck Using an incognito window

First result for me.

Since Google results almost always vary by geographic location, according to the bottom of the page, Google thinks I'm in "Bernalillo County, New Mexico."

I have no idea where that is. I haven't been to New Mexico in close to 20 years. I'm currently almost 1,000 miles away from New Mexico.

Good jorb, Google.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by bhandziuk » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #210

bhandziuk wrote: post #168

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What is a "Google"? It's not even a word. It caught on though.

Its from googolplex, the name of a very large integer that is equal to 1 followed by 10100 zeroes

That word is "googol". Google is nothing. It's a play on words we've gotten used to like DuckDuckGo.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by kevindqc » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

aequitas wrote: post #140

kevindqc wrote: post #37

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It's the second result on Google, too: https://www.google.com/search?q=duck Using an incognito window

5th for me with this as information: DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified. https://duckduckgo.com/ The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. ‎ Other Settings · ‎DuckDuckGo Search Box · ‎About DuckDuckGo · ‎Press Kit Although the word search is mentioned in the info I would not make this out as a alternative search engine at first…

Well that's on DuckDuckGo. They could make it more obvious if they wanted. Interestingly, when searching duck, DuckDuckGo went from 2nd to 1st.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by zenexer » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

hathawsh wrote: post #219

zenexer wrote: post #215

Meta: NamePros tech admin here. This hammered our servers so hard that we actually uncovered a fairly obscure bug in Nginx's FastCGI caching. It's gone unnoticed for years, including during rigorous load testing.

More details please. :-) This sounds like it deserves a full article.

It probably does. It'll take me a while to dig through the source to find the cause, but preliminary evidence suggests that fastcgi_cache_key doesn't handle $cookie_* variables correctly. If the cookie doesn't exist, it seems to result in a unique key every time. (Edit: The workaround is to assign the $cookie_* variable to another variable and then use that in fastcgi_cache_key.)

If anyone is curious what sort of increase in traffic you should expect from a link to your site appearing on HN, we're getting about 230 additional backend requests per second--that doesn't include anything cached by Cloudflare. You can monitor it in realtime here: https://www.nameprosstatus.com/

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by huyzz » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

Nice collusion we have in here. Not that I trusted DDG to begin with.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by drawkbox » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:44 PM UTC

If using Firefox, you can now browse the web and search it with some animals, the Fox and the Duck.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by FabHK » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:46 PM UTC

laken wrote: post #186

IronWolve wrote: post #124

I 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 :)

!m is enough, for another 33% saving :-)

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by kevindqc » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:46 PM UTC

awestroke wrote: post #54

kevindqc wrote: post #37

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It's the second result on Google, too: https://www.google.com/search?q=duck Using an incognito window

Personalized results

How? I'm at work (so tracking me personally by IP is probably hard since there's hundreds of different people using the same IP) and using an incognito window. Using a different browser (that I used once or twice), incognito again, gives me the same result.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by nasredin » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:46 PM UTC

stedaniels wrote: post #205

zigzaggy wrote: post #203

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I agree. I switched to DDG years ago, and brought several people with me. I never have any problems finding what I need. I’m as de-Googled as I can be. I caught a lot of slack (?) from some people over it. But it’s a relief for me.

*flack

"flak"

https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/8.8_cm_Flak_18/36/37/41

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by FabHK » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:47 PM UTC

ConfusedDog wrote: post #86

I do feel like DuckDuckGo is too long to type. That's a barrier for me. Rebranding to just Duck might be a good thing, but why "duck" ... not my favorite animal, or why animal at all...

just switch your default search engine to DDG, and append !g when you prefer google (or !s for the anonymous startpage version).