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How nice it must be to be so big that you don't have to worry about helping the "competition".
by dominicr 8y ago
How nice it must be to be so big that you don't have to worry about helping the "competition".
- rileyphone 8y agoIt's probably to help stave off the crescendo of EU antitrust cases.
- sct202 8y agoIt's also funny when Google does 'nice' things, it still gets attacked, even though they don't seem to have bought the domain to be malicious.
- ric2b 8y agoI don't see what's so nice about this if all they were doing was squatting on the domain. It's good that they stopped squatting, let's leave it at that.
- Oletros 8y agoWhy it was squatting?
- ghostly_s 8y agoIf you own a domain you have no intent to use, which someone else may conceivably want, you're squatting.
- jonas21 8y agoGoogle owned the domain because they acquired a company that used to be named "Duck Corporation" and predated DuckDuckGo. A few months ago, DuckDuckGo asked for the domain, Google agreed to give it to them for free, and the transfer took place today. That doesn't really seem like squatting, at least not how the term is generally used.
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- Oletros 8y agoThen, it doesn't apply to this case
- cenal 8y agoReminds me of when Microsoft invested in Apple to keep that business alive.