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If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains https://infogalacti

If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains

HowardStark 5y ago
Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo. That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...
- Sephr 5y ago
  iirc this was originally owned by Google and then given to DDG.
  - butt__hugger 5y ago
    This is correct. It used to redirect to Google.
- celestialcheese 5y ago
  duck.com was owned by google from an acquisition in 2010. It was sold to DDG in 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck-com-google-acquisition https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...
- gtirloni 5y ago
  In December 2018, it was reported that Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo. It is not known what price, if any, DuckDuckGo paid for the domain name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
  - sneak 5y ago
    Being a "competitor" that a monopolist can point to as faux evidence of their not-monopoly status is far beyond any simple integer price.
    - vmception 5y ago
      Especially since we need BigNumber to represent the real dollar value at stake
- jordanmoconnor 5y ago
  Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.
  - cigaser 5y ago
    It is using Bing engine and data.
    - anoonmoose 5y ago
      That would make it even funnier!
      - cigaser 5y ago
        It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.
        kortilla 5y ago
        Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.
    - magnusmundus 5y ago
      ...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them. [1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
      - Seirdy 5y ago
        Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim. DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.
      - skinnymuch 5y ago
        They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.
gtirloni 5y ago
Does anyone know what cobrasearch.com was?
- FredPret 5y ago
  It’s like Find My iPhone but much scarier

If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains

HowardStark 5y ago

Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo. That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...

Sephr 5y ago
iirc this was originally owned by Google and then given to DDG.
- butt__hugger 5y ago
  This is correct. It used to redirect to Google.
celestialcheese 5y ago
duck.com was owned by google from an acquisition in 2010. It was sold to DDG in 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck-com-google-acquisition https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...
gtirloni 5y ago
In December 2018, it was reported that Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo. It is not known what price, if any, DuckDuckGo paid for the domain name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
- sneak 5y ago
  Being a "competitor" that a monopolist can point to as faux evidence of their not-monopoly status is far beyond any simple integer price.
  - vmception 5y ago
    Especially since we need BigNumber to represent the real dollar value at stake
jordanmoconnor 5y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.
- cigaser 5y ago
  It is using Bing engine and data.
  - anoonmoose 5y ago
    That would make it even funnier!
    - cigaser 5y ago
      It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.
      - kortilla 5y ago
        Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.
  - magnusmundus 5y ago
    ...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them. [1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/
    - Seirdy 5y ago
      Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim. DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.
    - skinnymuch 5y ago
      They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.

gtirloni 5y ago

Does anyone know what cobrasearch.com was?

FredPret 5y ago
It’s like Find My iPhone but much scarier