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Because Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc all have professional sounding names? Let me tweet about it.

• iamdamian 6y ago
  I’m not sure which part of my comment you’re reacting to. I don’t think I ever claimed that they need a professional sounding name.
  • ragnese 6y ago
    I was reacting to the words "unpolished", "allusion to a children's game", "inspire confidence", "nonsensical", "thoughtful layer of meaning"
    • iamdamian 6y ago
      My take is that you have taken a structured set of claims I wrote down, picked phrases I used in that structure, and rearranged them to say something I didn’t.
      • ragnese 6y ago
        If that's the case, it wasn't intentional. My reading of your comment was that you were criticizing DuckDuckGo for not inspiring confidence. I understood the name to be at least one of the reasons. EDIT: Actually, even now, rereading your post I feel like your accusation of me cherry-picking is not fair. Your entire message was about the name of DuckDuckGo. You said "the name [...] gives a bad first impression", "it's not about [...] as it is about being unpolished and a little nonsensical.", "They would be better off with [...] a more complete name with an obvious and thoughtful layer of meaning." I don't understand how I could have interpreted your message incorrectly.