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This is old news: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/30/we-bet-you-dont-know-who-owns-duck-com-and-what-it-redirects-to/ https://thenextweb.com/insider/201
by ma2rten 8y ago
This is old news:
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/30/we-bet-you-dont-know-who-owns-duck-com-and-what-it-redirects-to/ https://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/30/we-bet-you-dont-kn...
The name was actually part of an acquisition.
I understand why DuckDuckGo is not happy about this and/or trying to use this for PR. However, I don't think a lot of people are going confuse DuckDuckGo and Google, since DDG users are typically making a conscious choice to use it over Big G.
- ralfd 8y agoWe actually discussed it 8 years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691
- ma2rten 8y agoThis is off topic, but there has been quite the point inflation since then. EDIT: Too bad we can't see the comment scores... I wonder if PG is ever going to change his mind about this :)