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I rarely use the term "ducking" in conversation, though auto-correct thinks otherwise. Maybe now I will. "I was ducking around and found a few good resources for fixing the OSPF problem."
In Trinbagonian dialect, "ducking" is the act of skipping work/school. See: https://youtu.be/2qunog47EVo for musical reference.
This 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.
edit: u is right next to i guys. this is not a valueless comment. it’s a legitimate thing that will happen to someone you know.
I wish everyone used DDG for the sake of privacy, but I cannot. It just doesn't give me answers that I am expecting. It reads my mind less than Google and that's a problem.
To offer an alternate experience, I use DDG for nearly everything and have for many months. I have very few issues with it. For the more esoteric searches, I do find Google to be slightly better, but for 99% of my everyday browsing, I have zero issues with DDG.
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Suggested title of blog post announcing change: "Duck Yeah!"
I rarely use the term "ducking" in conversation, though auto-correct thinks otherwise. Maybe now I will. "I was ducking around and found a few good resources for fixing the OSPF problem."
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It's also funny when Google does 'nice' things, it still gets attacked, even though they don't seem to have bought the domain to be malicious.
I don't see what's so nice about this if all they were doing was squatting on the domain. It's good that they stopped squatting, let's leave it at that.
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Ding ding ding.. we have a winner
DDG just uses Bing, the existence of DDG is irrelevant to this, Bing is what counts.
I like DDG, and use it, but it's mostly a pretty front end on a now-deprecated Bing API. If Bing shut down, DDG wouldn't be far behind.
I've never seen a DDG crawler in any of my logs, though I've seen plenty of Google and Bing (and others). DDG does some nice instant answer and bang stuff, but the actual deep search results are all Bing (and maybe Yandex?)
This is cool and I hope it leads to a rebranding. While I like DDG a lot, the name has always felt off-putting to me. I'd much rather say "I'll just search Google" than "I'll just search DuckDuckGo." Does an extra syllable really cause that much additional friction?
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.
This is cool and I hope it leads to a rebranding. While I like DDG a lot, the name has always felt off-putting to me. I'd much rather say "I'll just search Google" than "I'll just search DuckDuckGo." Does an extra syllable really cause that much additional friction?
Also, rather than saying “Google it” maybe we can now say “Duck it”.
This is cool and I hope it leads to a rebranding. While I like DDG a lot, the name has always felt off-putting to me. I'd much rather say "I'll just search Google" than "I'll just search DuckDuckGo." Does an extra syllable really cause that much additional friction?