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would you be talking about it if the name was something else? Brand is a BIG part of any new search engine, one portion of it is remembering the name -- kinda h
by prakash 18y ago
would you be talking about it if the name was something else? Brand is a BIG part of any new search engine, one portion of it is remembering the name -- kinda hard to forget one with the name DuckDuckGo.
- paul7986 18y agoYeah what seems silly, odd & out of the ordinary often becomes successful. Gets people talking! Look at the Snuggie craze, which keeps you warm yet looks totally ridiculous!
- mattmaroon 18y agoI would if it were on Hacker News. Other than this thread, I'll have forgotten about it by tomorrow.
- axod 18y agoVery easy to forget IMHO, and hard to remember if it's duckduckgo, duckgoduck, gogoduck, duckgo, goduck, etc etc
- iron_ball 18y agoNo, it's easy to remember, if you remember the childrens' game "Duck Duck Goose." If you don't know the game, then yeah, the URL is just pretty nonsensical.
- axod 18y agoAh. Is this an American game perhaps? Never heard of it. Thanks for explaining. May hamper global adoption :)
- epi0Bauqu 18y agoYeah, it's an american thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Duck_Goose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Duck_Goose I think pretty much all Americans know it instantly. I'm sure some will pipe up here not knowing it now...it's their queue :)
- wheels 18y agoI knew the game once being reminded of it, but I didn't immediately make the connection reading about Duck Duck Go. I'd throw another hat in the ring of, "Yeah, a better name would help."