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Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by sotojuan »

yamann wrote: post #212
arama471 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use and like DDG and I assure you I am in no way paid by DDG. If they bragged about it on a forum I would expect there to be an archive of it somewhere (as well as discussions about it). Googling (and ducking) yields no articles or discussions about this.

open a thread in 4chan's /g/ and ask them about it, many have a screenshot of his quora's post there

Everyone being a shill is a meme on /g/ and in general the board doesn't like DDG that much because it's popular/cool or because of antisemetic reasons (Weinberg is a Jewish name).

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by programbreeding »

ahmedalsudani wrote: post #286
jaysonelliot wrote: post #263

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Finally, someone will actually mean to type "ducking," and it won't just be autocorrect.

I envy anybody whose autocorrect suggests swearing. For me it’s a constant battle of teaching and reteaching it the different manners of expressing passion and frustration. That’s the one thing I liked about Google’s keyboard on Android: that you could enable “sailor-mouth mode”. They called it something boring though like “Suggest profane words”.

Checkout swiftkey. Mine actually tries to correct ducking to fucking.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by mxpxrocks10 »

cosmojg wrote: post #274

NamePros user, Thelma, made a good point: > The story of Microsoft floating a significant loan to Apple in order to keep Apple solvent in the late '90's is well-known. Microsoft didn't do so out of altruistic impulse; they did so to decrease the odds they'd be the target of anti-trust legislation. I'm sure the c-suite at Google is very aware of that history lesson, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a more likely anti…

I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by CydeWeys »

djsumdog wrote: post #282
CydeWeys wrote: post #130

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Two-letter TLDs are ccTLDs, and all the existing countries already have their ccTLDs. In order for this to happen, you'd need to have a new country spring into existence that can plausibly be abbreviated to .go, and then they would have to treat it like a faux-generic (like .io) instead of imposing registration/use restrictions as some countries do for their ccTLDs.

I love how you can still buy .su (Soviet Union) domains.

I tried to buy one but it bought me instead :(

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by balnaphone »

ummonk wrote: post #281
kethinov wrote: post #132

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I just say "web search it." Same syllables as Google. Devoid of any brand preference.

Same syllables sure but there has to be a hard stop between the two syllables since b and s can’t be strung together.

The two words can be strung together just fine in English. Think of the word "rub", then "rubs", then "rubs search", then "rubsearch". The final 'b' in "web" is indeed pronounced differently when linked to the word "search".

For more discussion see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation_(phonology)

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Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by jcranendonk »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #258

Nice! Now DuckDuckGo needs to just change their name to Duck Search and it can be used as a verb. No longer will you have to say "Did you DuckDuckGo it?" and can instead say "Did you Duck it?". Even on the domain alone I will use Duck more since I won't have to type in the full DuckDuckGo.com domain. I _feel_ like this could really bring some measurable growth to Duck search. I _feel_ like I certainly will use it mor…

Finally, we'll be able to tell people to go Duck themselves while in polite company.

Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

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Post by [deleted] »

jcranendonk wrote: post #298
ElijahLynn wrote: post #258

Nice! Now DuckDuckGo needs to just change their name to Duck Search and it can be used as a verb. No longer will you have to say "Did you DuckDuckGo it?" and can instead say "Did you Duck it?". Even on the domain alone I will use Duck more since I won't have to type in the full DuckDuckGo.com domain. I _feel_ like this could really bring some measurable growth to Duck search. I _feel_ like I certainly will use it mor…

Finally, we'll be able to tell people to go Duck themselves while in polite company.

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