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I think Google only keeps DuckDuckGo around so they can claim they have “competition.”
by eloc49 6y ago
I think Google only keeps DuckDuckGo around so they can claim they have “competition.”
- zozbot234 6y agoIt's not always a bad thing. The duck.com domain used to redirect to Google for a long time (they got it in a random acquisition) but now it's been changed to DDG instead. I'm pretty sure that this kind of analysis played a role there. (A more diversified ecosystem in search also helps with fighting SEO spam, which is by far the biggest actual threat to Google Search volume.)
- gyulai 6y agoWhy would it be up to Google to decide whether or not DuckDuckGo gets to "be around"?
- maze-le 6y agoI am also confused about this wording but I assume it refers to the duckduckgo-app on android devices. It would be blatantly anti-competitive if google would refuse the ddg app in their app store, solely because they compete with them in the search-engine market -- there are legal mechanisms against this behavior.
- gyulai 6y agoAgreed. And there are laws against this sort of thing, and the regulators are slowly but surely catching up to the fact that they will have to start actually enforcing them.