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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.
My wife and I used to breed ducks and have a duck farm. We were quack addicts, and quack dealers. I could go on and on.
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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.
Why did google own duck.com? Edit: lol
> Search giant Google acquired the Duck.com domain name in 2010 with the acquisition of On2, a video codec company.
This is cool and I hope it leads to a rebranding. While I like DDG a lot, the name has always felt off-putting to me. I'd much rather say "I'll just search Google" than "I'll just search DuckDuckGo." Does an extra syllable really cause that much additional friction?
It's not the number of syllables, it's the particular flow of those syllables and the number of full stops. I'm sure there's a linguistic term for what I mean. Consider "I'll just Googlify it" or "I'll just Dodogo it", which both sound better than "I'll just DuckDuckGo it".
How nice it must be to be so big that you don't have to worry about helping the "competition".
Why did google own duck.com? Edit: lol
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.
Is this to fein competition?
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.