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This is awesome - happy to see privacy oriented search become more popular. I think DuckDuckGo needs a better name though - Something more ubiquitous. Duck, may

This is awesome - happy to see privacy oriented search become more popular. I think DuckDuckGo needs a better name though - Something more ubiquitous. Duck, maybe? Quack?

dannylandau 7y ago
my vote is for -- quackquackdoc
krackers 7y ago
There was a rant by some other HN user about how DDG owns "duck.com" yet refuses to just point it to a search page.
- godelski 7y ago
  duck.com DOES redirect to duckduckgo.com. IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect, but once DDG got ownership they redirected it.
  - krackers 7y ago
    Visiting the page incognito, you're hit with a modal dialogue that you have to dismiss before you can search.
    - godelski 7y ago
      This does not happen in FireFox. Are you suggesting Google is still playing dumb games?
      - jobigoud 7y ago
        I can repro this in Firefox. Are you disabling Javascript?
        godelski 7y ago
        Ahhh found it. uBlock was preventing it. I can reproduce now.
  - zozbot234 7y ago
    > IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect AIUI duck.com used to be a redirect-- to google.com. Very confusing for actual DDG users. IIRC Google got the domain as part of acquiring On2, some sort of video codec company, at a time when DDG wasn't nearly as popular as it is today.
mackrevinack 7y ago
somehow google managed to become the best search engine with a goofy name so I don't really think it's that important.