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I use also use ddg, but maps.google is far better for maps. So I mix both, using an addon, I can right click an address and send to google maps. Its a nice compromise.
Imagine if Google had GoogleGoogleGo as their branding from the start. Would they be where they are today?
So will DuckDuckGo change their name to Duck? DuckDuckGo is a terrible name.
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Disclaimer: The following is based on my memories of working at Corel at the time. My memory is crap, so it is possible I've made mistakes. Please verify the authenticity of my claims if it is important to you and don't take my word for it. At almost the exact same time, MS bought Corel Stock that enabled Corel to stay afloat. It was non-voting stock, but it had a veto on acquisitions (to reasonably protect their inv…
I don't follow the scheme here. What are "penalties on the acquisition deals"? This all seems rather roundabout when it's dependent on the company being close to insolvency anyway, so they could have just bought them outright to begin with if that was really their master plan.
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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) Page 10 of http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/donegan/Papers/201Xhistph.…
(Note also that when you say "rubs", the "b" is not getting assimilated - it's the "s" that is getting assimilated into a voiced "z")
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.
There are no DDG results: DDG serves Bing results. What you are really saying is that you prefer Bing to Google results.
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!
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Heh. That works really well in English. (Wondered if I could use this in Dutch too, but decided against it due to the seminal connotations of ‘kwak’…)
You'd likely be able to recognize DuckDuckGo users by their black eyes.