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I've had more than one family member uninstall DDG thinking it was malware. DuckDuckGo, imo, implies some degree of arbitrariness in whether they'll take your s
by ballenf 9y ago
I've had more than one family member uninstall DDG thinking it was malware. DuckDuckGo, imo, implies some degree of arbitrariness in whether they'll take your search query seriously. The article mentions he came up with the name before he had a product. It's just too bad he didn't think of a kids game just before this search engine.
It's my default search engine and without fail when a non-tech colleague is over my shoulder for an internet search they bust out laughing at the name and are insistent that it's a prank website. I persist and calmly explain. They relent and give that look you give a crazy person you don't want to argue with.
- adolph 9y agoI remember when Google looked that way too. The lack of other links, gif animations and backgrounds, the prototype-style primary colors . . .
- ballenf 9y agoBut the name Google implies a mind-boggling large number of results or websites that it's processing or searching for you. Maybe the name has a degree of playfulness, but it's not named after a children's game that revolves around the arbitrary choice of an unlucky child. They also had the luxury of entering the market before there was a dominant player. Not to mention the brilliance of the pagerank algorithm.
- captainmuon 9y agoI first encountered Google as an embeddable widget on Warez sites. For the longest time, I was convinced it was a "Scene" thing (like the astalavista search engine) and avoided it :-D.