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Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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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.

That's the stretchiest pun I've seen in years. Nice job.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

#233
post #151

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I can't wait to start saying "Go Duck yourself", and have it meant to be a request / complement to search your own name.

"Let me duck that for you" might get a few doubletakes.

Let's start saying "duck off" to the ill-informed

duck.com will surely inspire the sick dolan[0] crowd

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3-vC2z7hI

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

#235

Though 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.

dgg.gg also forwards to duckduckgo.com

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

#236
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Might be a nice step towards rebranding for a bigger audience? I use DDG as a default search engine, but the name doesn't roll off the tongue nicely at all... Edit: It doesn't roll of my fingers either, I didn't even type out the full name...

I love DuckDuckGo and use it on all my devices, but, WOW what a horrible name/branding. What were they thinking? Every time I mention/recommend it to someone the response is always a blank stare followed by something along the lines of “I would never use that if only to avoid that horrible name / brand URL”. And I can’t say I blame them.

Agree, this name is terrible and I think that it seriously damages whole search engine/company and lowers it's popularity. This name gives impression that it's something made for fun and one shouldn't expect serious results out of it. Moreover I think that it actively prevents popularization - you mentioned that after your recommendation response is blank stare etc. - for me and I suppose that for many others it works differently: I don't event recommend it to anyone because I know/predicted result similar to yours.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

#237

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> To be honest I've never noticed the filter bubble everybody is talking about with Google. It's extremely obvious/bad when you try Googling some old article about an topic, often political, that has recently regained popularity. You can try adding all kinds of words from the headline, certain terms will always lead to the results being dominated with "current news", like with Russia/Ukraine or more recently with Chi…

You can specify a date range in Google btw. You click “tools” and then it will present a date option.

This is exactly what I do as well. Date range filter in on Google is excellent to find old news.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

#238
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No 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.

This is indeed weird; a 4 letter domain name that also happens to be an english word is worth a couple millions.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

#239

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I love DuckDuckGo and use it on all my devices, but, WOW what a horrible name/branding. What were they thinking? Every time I mention/recommend it to someone the response is always a blank stare followed by something along the lines of “I would never use that if only to avoid that horrible name / brand URL”. And I can’t say I blame them.

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

I think that it can also be perceived as derivative from goggles[0], and it fits pretty good.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goggles

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

#240
post #122

I'm quite surprised there's no .go tld, I could see it being used quite a lot.

Especially considering there is .rs

Two-letter TLDs are country codes. Republic of Serbia isn't that big of a stretch, especially since it's relatively new (2008) and there are already so many that follow .s* pattern.

Unless you create a new country, .go ain't happening.

That being said, Montenegro scored a freaking gold mine with .me.

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