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Come on!! Google didn't lawyer up and force a 3-word, confusing brand down Weinberg's throat. If you want to compete with a market leader, whose domain is 2.5
by mankash666 8y ago
Come on!! Google didn't lawyer up and force a 3-word, confusing brand down Weinberg's throat.
If you want to compete with a market leader, whose domain is 2.5 syllables long, and you pick a confusing, 3 word megadomain for a brand, you don't get to cry foul over Duck.com !
- thaumaturgy 8y agoThe name is probably the most boring criticism of DDG that anybody can come up with. And anyway, it's also irrelevant here. The question was over whether Google is using their position to deliberately redirect users to their own search engine. I don't know if they are or not, I was just correcting the timeline that some people were getting wrong and adding background info.
- bassman9000 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817812 The main issue I have is with duck.com. A lot of people remember that we are a search engine "duck something" and so naturally try duck.com. As a result, there is a lot of confusion, e.g.: "I was telling someone about DuckDuckGo and they thought it was Duck.com and they went to Google. Is Google using this to find people who make the mistake to Duck.com instead of DuckDuckGo?" "Can't you do something about this? I keep going to Duck.com when meaning to visit DuckDuckGo.com They are using the DuckDuckGo name to get people to search Google." FTFC