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This is the biggest turn off for me for the service. I use it, because I like it, but I really don't like the name.
by muninn_ 10y ago
This is the biggest turn off for me for the service. I use it, because I like it, but I really don't like the name.
- dchuk 10y agoIf you use it, and like it, why does the name matter anymore? Is it an embarrassment thing?
- eganist 10y agoGoogle is basically a verb at this point. It's hard to tell people to DuckDuckGo it. GoDuck might be interesting. "GoDuck it."
- AdamSC1 10y agoYou could return to the neutral non-branded term of 'search' it.
- tyingq 10y agoI believe the idea is to be more of a guerrilla evangelist for DDG, but the brand name makes that hard.
- Perseids 10y agoEven better: You can work an making "google" a generic term for searching – "I'm googling it on DuckDuckGo" – which increases awareness of other search engines and decreases the association of the common activity "googling" with the company "Google".
- muninn_ 10y agoNah just bugs me. Like you wouldn't drive a DuckDuckGo mobile right?
- themihai 10y agoIt's just too much to type.
- rocky1138 10y agoI think it's been several years since I've actually visited duckduckgo.com. Modern browsers make it really easy to set DDG to your default search engine.
- agumonkey 10y agoYeah but I often use other computers. I often thought about having a shorter name under elinks for instance.
- themihai 10y agoPeople often want to try it for a while before to set it as default. Same happened to me when I changed my default browser. All being said I think a rebranding would make it more competitive.
- Spivak 10y agoThere's always https://ddg.co https://ddg.co or https://ddg.gg https://ddg.gg
- update 10y agoddg.com
- lmedinas 10y agoHave you tried ddg.gg ?
- glaberficken 10y agooh! nifty shortcut, thanks =)
- agumonkey 10y agothx
- csharpminor 10y agoI've been using DuckDuckGo for the past year and love it. But this also gets me. I've been trying to evangelize with my colleagues and friends and the whole duck thing makes it hard for them to take seriously. One friend said the logo reminded them of Aflac. And then all of a sudden we're talking about a duck instead of why private search is important.