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> DDG chose an awkward name for their search engine The majority of non-techie people I recommend DDG to literally LOL and give me the stop-shitting-me look.
by ballenf 8y ago
> DDG chose an awkward name for their search engine
The majority of non-techie people I recommend DDG to literally LOL and give me the stop-shitting-me look.
I can't send a link to DDG to professional colleagues.
I've helped friends get their browsers more secure, etc. and they'll leave everything else alone but switch search because they think duckduckgo is some kind of "virus". (I explain it at the time, but it's too much to remember evidently.)
They really screwed up with the name, in my opinion as a regular user. It's also not short or memorable. I just don't get it. Seems like one of those inside jokes that only a founder finds funny and gets changed quickly before going to market.
- rlucas 8y agoAre you serious? Your industry colleagues haven't been inoculated against name-chauvinism by the relentless parade including "Google," "Yahoo," the innumerable "-Fish" and "-Monkey" names, etc.?
- korethr 8y ago> They really screwed up with the name, in my opinion as a regular user. It's also not short or memorable While I agree that it's not short, I disagree that it is not memorable. I've not had difficulty in remembering the name nor its association with a search service that is privacy focused, perhaps in part because of its awkward length. Are we perhaps using different definitions for "memorable"?