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DuckDuckGo has been my primary search tool for close to a decade now. I also like that ddg.gg redirects to duckduckgo.com. The domain ddg.gg is much easier to t
by susam 5y ago
DuckDuckGo has been my primary search tool for close to a decade now. I also like that ddg.gg redirects to duckduckgo.com. The domain ddg.gg is much easier to type on web browsers where I do not have DuckDuckGo configured as a search engine.
I stumbled upon DuckDuckGo fortuitously after installing Vimperator in Firefox around 2009 or so. If I remember correctly, Vimperator had DuckDuckGo as one of the search engine options and that's how I came to know about it.
I use Vimium with Firefox these days and it is really easy to choose either DuckDuckGo or Google for searching using the keyboard sequences od<space> or og<space>, respectively, if these are enabled as custom search engines in the Vimium options page.
- jspash 5y agoI believe it's their name (and domain) that is holding them back. Sure, Google is a silly word but it's now ubiquitous. But "Duck Duck Go" simply doesn't roll off the tongue. It will make adoption much harder. The shame of it all is that they do own duck.com. Why not rebrand at this point? So instead of answering questions by saying "why don't you just google it" people could suggest that you someone "duck it". Hmmm, maybe that has problems of it's own...
- JackFr 5y agoSeriously the name is awful. I really think it hurts adoption.
- Sami_Lehtinen 5y agoYou clearly don't remember the https://www.dogpile.com/ https://www.dogpile.com/
- bamboozled 5y agoWe remember it, we forgot it, terrible name
- eganist 5y agoDogpile was at least memorable. I had to remind myself how to spell Cuil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil Edit: also, dogpile is somehow still around.... which is worth something I suppose.
- Nextgrid 5y agoBranding seems to be a major problem when it comes to non-commercial (or at the very least "alternative", since DDG is technically still for-profit) services. DDG isn't even that bad in comparison to some others like Mastodon or various Linux desktop apps.
- ffhhj 5y agoGoDaddy has a similar weird origin. And I remember when I first heard about Google in the 80's! One of my uncles learned about 1 google from a math book. 10+ years later I heard it again meaning "don't be evil", and now it means "eat my spam". Amazing how people get used to words and silly brand names, just don't make me start with micro-soft ;)
- bad_username 5y agoduck.com works as well.
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoFun fact: DuckDuckGo has this domain because Google gave it to them after acquiring it for unrelated reasons. It had been the domain of video codec developer Duck Corporation, which changed its name to On2 and was later acquired by Google primarily to get its patent portfolio for the WebM effort.
- propogandist 5y agoGoogle wouldn't assign any IP over without some terms and conditions, which may be what's limiting them from adopting it.
- brimnes 5y agoThey should drop the "DuckGo". Just "Duck". It's cleaner.