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Don't fall for it duckduckgo! If you change your name to duck, your name will no longer be searchable! It's a trap!
When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
Though 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.
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
Apple was about to go under and Microsoft saved it in order to have a competitor.
https://www.mac-history.net/apple-history-tv/2008-07-19/macw...
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.
Usually when I search for something I don't care about any of that, I just want to see the organic matches, not "People also ask" and "People also search for" widgets that are of no value to me.
DDG only has the wikipedia widget (which I actually find pretty useful generally) and sometimes the video or image carousel at the top which is sometimes relevant and doesn't waste a lot of screen real estate. I hope it'll continue that way.
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?
I just say "I'm going to search for x" now and avoid the company name entirely. Although as noted by a person responding here "I'll duck it" wouldn't be bad.
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When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
your experience is biased because they give you results based on your google profile.
Though 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.
Google also probably accelerated this potential action to this week because they're taking so much heat and needed positive press.
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Suggested title of blog post announcing change: "Duck Yeah!"
I rarely use the term "ducking" in conversation, though auto-correct thinks otherwise. Maybe now I will. "I was ducking around and found a few good resources for fixing the OSPF problem."
See: https://youtu.be/2qunog47EVo for musical reference.