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DuckDuckGo is hardly a competitor to Google. I struggle to think of some future scenario where Alphabet looks back and thinks "Damn, we never should have given DDG that domain name, it was all down hill from there!". No antitrust investigation is going to believe that this small action makes any difference to Google's total dominance of search.
There is nothing illegal about a monopoly. A monopoly that uses it's position to prevent competition is illegal. Giving DDG a very valuable domain name (given their name) absolutely does what you're saying it doesn't.
Google is like a french word that rolls off the tongue. Duck is like a anglo/norse, sharp and harsh but satisfying like our other favorite 4 letter word.
It made me wonder if ente.de is in use (Ente is Duck in German). It is .. and it's full of 90s Internet.
Not quite, but the design, layout and editing is indeed hilariously outdated.
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…
DDG 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.
According to wikipedia, On2 Technologies, formerly known as The Duck Corporation... So it all makes sense now and all the conspiracy theories about Google's ownership proven false. And kudos to Google for transferring a high value domain ownership out to a competitor!
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.
I wonder if Google wants them around so that they can point to them as a competitor when anti-trust suits come up in court.
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Is this not just a classic example of HN looking for the negative in every positive? Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy and MS pushed them off it. Conversely, DDG is nowhere near bankruptcy and although it may be easier to type, a shorter domain name is not going to drastically increase the competitive edge that DDG has over google. To me they seem in totally different categories.
> Is this not just a classic example of HN looking for the negative in every positive? No. Google has the monopoly on search (outside of China). Avoiding anti-trust is a huge concern of theirs. Look at MS and IE in the browser wars - they were forced by the EU to build into Windows links/ads to the other browsers - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu#/media/File:B... Whilst DDG has huge momentum by now…
Don't fall for it duckduckgo! If you change your name to duck, your name will no longer be searchable! It's a trap!
And it's already #1 for me (but that's likely because I've used the site before, and Google knows that)