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Nice! Now DuckDuckGo needs to just change their name to Duck Search and it can be used as a verb. No longer will you have to say "Did you DuckDuckGo it?" and c
by ElijahLynn 8y ago
Nice! Now DuckDuckGo needs to just change their name to Duck Search and it can be used as a verb.
No longer will you have to say "Did you DuckDuckGo it?" and can instead say "Did you Duck it?".
Even on the domain alone I will use Duck more since I won't have to type in the full DuckDuckGo.com domain.
I _feel_ like this could really bring some measurable growth to Duck search. I _feel_ like I certainly will use it more and talk about it more. Time will tell.
- bellinom 8y agoMy partner and I use "let me quack that" instead of "let me Google it".
- Freak_NL 8y agoHeh. That works really well in English. (Wondered if I could use this in Dutch too, but decided against it due to the seminal connotations of ‘kwak’…)
- jaysonelliot 8y agoFinally, someone will actually mean to type "ducking," and it won't just be autocorrect.
- ahmedalsudani 8y agoI envy anybody whose autocorrect suggests swearing. For me it’s a constant battle of teaching and reteaching it the different manners of expressing passion and frustration. That’s the one thing I liked about Google’s keyboard on Android: that you could enable “sailor-mouth mode”. They called it something boring though like “Suggest profane words”.
- zaat 8y agoOn less used languages their filtering doesn't work. I tried writing "she was rubbing her eyes" and the only suggestion I got after typing "she was rubbing" was clit, even after writing the sentence multiple time, clit was the only suggestion. I never wrote she was rubbing her clit on my phone. I swear.
- programbreeding 8y agoCheckout swiftkey. Mine actually tries to correct ducking to fucking.
- rubyfan 8y agoThat’s what you meant to say though right?
- edpichler 8y agoI totally agree with you.
- vhakulinen 8y ago> ...I won't have to type in the full DuckDuckGo.com domain. You can also use ddg.gg.
- IronBacon 8y agoThanks wasn't aware of that. Anyway, I use the Firefox "smart bookmarks" (I don't know if it's the correct name), i.e. naming the bookmark search, so "gg foo" is for searching foo on Google, "dd bar" is for searching bar on DuckDuck, "w baz" is for Wikipedia, "dbts #number" is for the "Debian bug tracking system" and so on...
- usr1106 8y agoNice, I wasn't aware of this feature. "Smart keywords" is the correct name. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
- vhakulinen 8y agoI have ddg as my default search engine in firefox, so by default my searches go to ddg. If I want to use google instead, I just add "!g" to some part of the search query and ddg will do its magic and do the same search on google. These are called bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- fastball 8y agoDUCK IT! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
- danellis 8y agoHow about you go duck yourself?
- biztos 8y agoMy iPhone is constantly autocorrecting "fucking" to "ducking" no matter how many times I write the former and never write the latter, so this could be a huge thing. Me: "Ducking Donald" Siri: "Duck Search found a McDonald's two blocks away, should I reserve you a table?"
- jen729w 8y agoSettings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement. Add a new entry, phrase “fucking”, shortcut blank. Ta-da!
- Romanulus 8y agolol @ reserving tables at McDonald's.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agoIf you search Google Images for "romantic dinner at McDonalds", you get some fun results.
- minikites 8y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-c... >When many lower-income Americans are feeling isolated by the deadening uniformity of things, by the emptiness of many jobs, by the media, they still yearn for physical social networks. They are not doing this by going to government-run community service centers. They are not always doing this by utilizing the endless array of well-intentioned not-for-profit outreach programs. They are doing this on their own, organically across the country, in McDonald’s.
- jcranendonk 8y agoFinally, we'll be able to tell people to go Duck themselves while in polite company.
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- BLanen 8y agoYea, seems like a great oppertunity for a re-branding around this domain.
- SomeCallMeTim 8y agoBe careful about asking "Did you Duck yourself?" though.
- h1d 8y agoSadly, good domain alone doesn't make it too famous. I think name change must be done. The name is too weird to go mainstream. Think of international customers too. I don't think I want to introduce it to my non English native parents, maybe they'll think it as some weird game. "Did you duck it?" sounds like asking if one dodged it.