From a previous discussion on it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 here's a quote from Gabriel: """To be

From a previous discussion on it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 here's a quote from Gabriel: """To be fair, it came as an asset in an unrelated acquisition (On2). But it just sat their (pointing to this Duck Corporation history page) for a long time. I first inquired about it on 11/4/09. After several attempts, I got back a response "from management" on 3/25/10 that they didn't want to sell it. Understandable. Now http://www.on2.com/ http://www.on2.com/ points to a Google explanation page about the On2 acquisition, yet http://duck.com/ http://duck.com/ points directly to Google search.""" Also discussed a little bit on the DDG community forum: http://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google http://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google