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.
Macworld Boston 1997
Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
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Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#32Be interesting to know how much $$$ passed hands on that deal - - - I don't think duck.com is similar enough to duckduckgo for a trademark dispute to rule in favor of duckduckgo, plus no smaller fish would go up against Google's legal ability . . . . now if they could just bag the URL for duckdynasty . . .
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#33Interestingly transferred, not bought. Does Google buying DDG at this point make sense? Given their stance on privacy, it would allow Google control of the narrative..
In Europe, Google's search business' market share is above the threshold at which a concentration would automatically require antitrust approval - which it has, of course, no chance of obtaining.
Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#34Interestingly transferred, not bought. Does Google buying DDG at this point make sense? Given their stance on privacy, it would allow Google control of the narrative..
duckduckgo would be worthless as a Google company.
The only reason I use it is because it isn't a Google company... well and the !bangs are good too.
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#35DDG is great - have been using it for months and I really enjoy the results. Google searches seem to be more of an echo chamber whereas DDG results seem to be more representative across a broad spectrum of sites.
To be honest I've never noticed the filter bubble everybody is talking about with Google. They can infer a lot from context, like city or previous searches, however that's primarily helping users, because coming up with precise search queries is not something that normal people can do and even power users like us fail at it.
I have been using DuckDuckGo because I'm making health related queries and I'm pretty scared of companies profiling me based on that.
But the experience with DDG has been worse, although it is definitely improving. And it's bearable, plus protecting my privacy is worth it.
Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#36Though 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.
I rarely type in duckduckgo.com. I just enter the search keyword into the URL bar and it takes me to DDG.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck&ia=web works fine for me ;)
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
Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#38DDG is great - have been using it for months and I really enjoy the results. Google searches seem to be more of an echo chamber whereas DDG results seem to be more representative across a broad spectrum of sites.
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#39Nice of Google. Not surprised.
Re: Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo
#40DDG is great - have been using it for months and I really enjoy the results. Google searches seem to be more of an echo chamber whereas DDG results seem to be more representative across a broad spectrum of sites.
To be honest I've never noticed the filter bubble everybody is talking about with Google. They can infer a lot from context, like city or previous searches, however that's primarily helping users, because coming up with precise search queries is not something that normal people can do and even power users like us fail at it. I have been using DuckDuckGo because I'm making health related queries and I'm pretty scared…
> To be honest I've never noticed the filter bubble everybody is talking about with Google.
Filter bubbles are personalized, so YMMV.