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ddg.gg is easier to type and for my fingers to remember than duck.com.
How about duck + (Ctrl + enter) ?
That could work =).
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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? A company single-handedly helping to save a direct competitor defies all business logic and obligations to shareholders of that company. The truth is this was a business move to benefit Microsoft, even though it had a benevolent factor to it. Thinking otherwise is overly optimistic, similar to how you believe it being a classic exa…
At the time, Microsoft made more on application software for every Mac sold than for every PC sold. Microsoft and Apple were competitors on operating systems, but not on applications, and Apple's Macs were a significant (though smaller) part of the market. The relationship between Apple and Microsoft was never as simple as just direct competitors.
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#433I do feel like DuckDuckGo is too long to type. That's a barrier for me. Rebranding to just Duck might be a good thing, but why "duck" ... not my favorite animal, or why animal at all...
That would be D+Enter if you indeed use it regularly. Add it yo your bookmark bar => no typing :)
I did. My D+Enter is draw.io...
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To me, it seems all this long explanation is just posturing when a simple example would have proven your point.
The simple example here being how Google seems to prioritize "current news", particularly those clicked the most often, over actual search results. Which from the outside feels very similar to how YouTube tends to "harmonize" it's dynamic playlists aka "mixes" to such a point that all of them end up being the same after the first 1-2 songs because everything after that seems to be strictly based on personalization an…
> The simple example here being how Google seems to prioritize "current news", particularly those clicked the most often, over actual search results.
Funny how I still don't see two links: 1. Google search for a keyword 2. DDC link for the same keyword
As I said, it's posturing.
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Especially considering there is .rs
Two-letter TLDs are country codes. R epublic of S erbia isn't that big of a stretch, especially since it's relatively new (2008) and there are already so many that follow .s* pattern. Unless you create a new country, .go ain't happening. That being said, Montenegro scored a freaking gold mine with .me.
Or maybe that was a joke ;)