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Google was a silly name for a while, and what do we think of it now? Here, I'll invoke "Tara" "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
by iamwil 17y ago
Google was a silly name for a while, and what do we think of it now?
Here, I'll invoke "Tara"
"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
- Tara Ploughman
- cookiecaper 17y agoWell, "Google" rolls off the tongue much easier than "Duck Duck Go". "Duck Duck Go" is also hard to "verb", as it were. I don't have a problem with the mentioned silliness of the name, I just think it's too long and hard to say/write.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoDuck it! Working on shorter domain names...we have dukgo, though that isn't that memorable. I hope to have something soon though.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- axod 17y agoI'd say get something that you can easily say, spell, and use as a verb. bloip gibbit erdle jopple etc etc But rebranding does seem a big job to me. It's amazingly motivating when you start seeing your startups name appearing as a verb on twitter searches :)
- mattmaroon 17y agoRebranding is not too difficult if you don't get much traffic from organic search. It's a simple redirect and a notice on the page. It's also not too difficult when you're small but gets more costly as time goes on. If DDG succeeds, the customer base it has now will be something like .00001% of it's users.
- anonjon 17y agoduckify! (?)
- niyazpk 17y agoHow would you like voidy.com?
- iamwil 17y agonot really. I'd just say I'd "DDG" it, or "double D", or "duck" it. In the same way, I just type I'd 'fb' someone for 'facebook' someone. It only rolls off the tongue because you're so use to it now. Same with other brand named that got verbed. Kleenex. Xerox., etc.
- philwelch 17y agoI think if Duck Duck Go went with "double D" as their verb, they'd have to commit to a GoDaddy-style marketing campaign....
- axod 17y agoDouble D would actually be pretty good brand. Could have a large breasted woman as the mascot.
- mattmaroon 17y agoThat's called Evony.
- aantix 17y agoWho is Tara Ploughman? The seriousness of DDG is to make damn sure that when someone types in the word 'dog' or some other simple search test, that pointed, relevant results are returned. And for that DDG seems to be getting better at each day. He's been very upfront about who he is (one man operation) with zero interests in storing personal tracking information (the antithesis of Google). He is serious.
- jcl 17y agohttp://lmddgtfy.com/?q=Who+is+Tara+Ploughman&v= http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=Who+is+Tara+Ploughman&v=
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- philwelch 17y agoAnagram of Tara Ploughman: "Not Paul Graham". Before the advent of Twitter, pg would attribute quotes to Tara Ploughman when he wanted to write one-sentence essays. (Since the advent of Twitter, he curiously has stopped writing one-sentence essays.)