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> The more valid way of looking at it is what percentage of his user base are confused by it. Hence my question. All he said was "consistent". What does that m
by nknight 15y ago
> The more valid way of looking at it is what percentage of his user base are confused by it.
Hence my question. All he said was "consistent". What does that mean? It's not a quantifiable unit. He could get a complaint every minute, or he could get one every day, or every year, all of these would be "consistent", but their meaning differs vastly.
> And it's not a matter of stupidity, especially before a user has a solid idea of what DDG is.
If their response to being told about a thing called "duck duck go" is to go to a web browser and type in "duck.com", it's stupidity. They're treating a domain name as a "do what I mean" mechanism. It's not. It's an address.
If I hear the restaurant is at "123 <garbled>", is the correct solution to go to building numbered "123" on the nearest street and get angry when it's not the restaurant?
- ericd 15y agoKeep in mind that DDG's url is duck.co and .com is still the default, in most people's mind. Also, consistent usually means uncontested and unambiguous, rather than representing some quantity. Edit: DDG's url is not actually duck.co, that's just the community url.
- nknight 15y agoduck.co is not the URL for the DuckDuckGo search engine, nor are most people even aware of its existence. The search engine is at duckduckgo.com, right where it should be.