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I like the name, but one barrier is that DuckDuckGo doesn't verb comfortably. I can't imagine ever saying "I DuckDuckGoed it" - since that breaks the verb 'to

by ronaldx 13y ago

I like the name, but one barrier is that DuckDuckGo doesn't verb comfortably. I can't imagine ever saying "I DuckDuckGoed it" - since that breaks the verb 'to go'. Although I've conditioned myself over several years to say "I searched for it [on DuckDuckGo]", I sometimes still find myself saying "I Googled it".

espadrine 13y ago
I ducked it.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  Hard to say "duck it" slightly flippantly in conversation without the risk of being more offensive than intended. ;)
- crayola 13y ago
  I duckduckwent there.
- braveheart1723 13y ago
  I ducked halle berry
vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"I googled it" didn't make a lot of sense for the first 5 years either... I tend to say "duckduckgo it" or "ask the duck" when referring to duckduckgo. It's hard to capture that last 5% of linguistic serendipity, so I'm not sure how it could be any better without sacrificing its identifying uniqueness. Idea: "I duckduck GOT it!"
- VaucGiaps 13y ago
  Asked the duck. Nice.
  - danbruc 13y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
- blunte 13y ago
  Duck-It. I ducked-it. Has a nice ring to it.
XaspR8d 13y ago
I DuckDuckWent it?
adam74 13y ago
I would drop the double duck and just say "duck go it".
anonymous 13y ago
I usually say "I googled it on ddg".
manish_gill 13y ago
/me duckduckgoes!
leeoniya 13y ago
duck typed it?
stevewillows 13y ago
I've been saying 'DDG it' around the house.
- D9u 13y ago
  This is what I and my tech colleagues say. I've been using Conformal's Xombrero browser for some time now, and on first run Xombrero offers a choice of search engines, my choice being https://duckduckgo.com/lite https://duckduckgo.com/lite Perhaps DuckDuckGo could acquire a ddg.* domain to make it easier to access?
  - claudius 13y ago
    Such as ddg.gg?
  - MatthewPhillips 13y ago
    Was not aware of /lite. Love it!
  - stevewillows 13y ago
    as mentioned, ddg.gg is active.
guelo 13y ago
The actual English "I searched for it" abstracts the implementation allowing you to switch out the underlying engine without replacing your verbal communication interface.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
  This, of course, is not as favorable for viral marketing.
roc 13y ago
I don't understand the fascination with Google competitors needing to have an easily "verb"ed brand. People never felt the need to verb their search engines before Google. [1] Nor do they now feel the need to verb any other search engine, host, portal, network or huge site like imdb, facebook, wikipedia or amazon. [2] [1] Hotbotted? AltaVista'd? Lycos'd? Yahoo'd? Asked Jeeves? Did any normals ever say any of those things? [2] "Tweet" is as close as any other service has come to google-style verbing of their brand by the general public. And that's only the case when you stretch the definition of 'general public'.
- X-Istence 13y ago
  Yahoo'd is an actual term I have heard people use. So the verbing is there with that one!
- BCharlie 13y ago
  facebooked is also a frequent use
- laumars 13y ago
  There's "photoshopped". In fact it's often shortened to just "shopped". Even before the internet, verbing was happening. Hoover is a brand of vacuum and people say "hoovered" / "hoovering".
- nikcub 13y ago
  Xerox, Post-it, Frisbee, Roller Blades, Q-tips, White Out, Windex, Viagra, Aspirin, Escalator, Zip-loc, Scotch tape, Polaroid, Jacuzzi, Walkman, Velcro, Super glue All become common English words, many of them in the dictionary but started as brands. There are plenty more if you go back to the 19th century (eg. Heroin) edit: Wikipedia has a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...
  - roc 13y ago
    You seem to be agreeing with me. If "Googled" goes the way of "Xeroxed" then the potential value of "DuckDuckGo-ed" is as irrelevant as "Ricoh-ed".
hnriot 13y ago
Shouldn't you say you Bing'd it since DDG use Bing for the actual search.
- boyter 13y ago
  That's not strictly true. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test compare to http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=test&lr=20996 http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=test&lr=20996 http://www.bing.com/search?q=test&go=&qs=bs&form=QBRE http://www.bing.com/search?q=test&go=&qs=bs&form... Shows that the results appear to be coming from Yandex not Bing, which is what DDG says on the page. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck Appears to be sourced from Bing, but to say its just Bing is incorrect. Also the top zero click info is sourced from all over the place (I should know as I provide some of them).
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atlbeer 13y ago
ddg'd it (dee, dee, gee'd)
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by ronaldx 13y ago

espadrine 13y ago

I ducked it.

jlgreco 13y ago
Hard to say "duck it" slightly flippantly in conversation without the risk of being more offensive than intended. ;)
crayola 13y ago
I duckduckwent there.
braveheart1723 13y ago
I ducked halle berry

vy8vWJlco 13y ago

"I googled it" didn't make a lot of sense for the first 5 years either... I tend to say "duckduckgo it" or "ask the duck" when referring to duckduckgo. It's hard to capture that last 5% of linguistic serendipity, so I'm not sure how it could be any better without sacrificing its identifying uniqueness. Idea: "I duckduck GOT it!"

VaucGiaps 13y ago
Asked the duck. Nice.
- danbruc 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
blunte 13y ago
Duck-It. I ducked-it. Has a nice ring to it.

XaspR8d 13y ago

I DuckDuckWent it?

adam74 13y ago

I would drop the double duck and just say "duck go it".

anonymous 13y ago

I usually say "I googled it on ddg".

manish_gill 13y ago

/me duckduckgoes!

leeoniya 13y ago

duck typed it?

stevewillows 13y ago

I've been saying 'DDG it' around the house.

D9u 13y ago
This is what I and my tech colleagues say. I've been using Conformal's Xombrero browser for some time now, and on first run Xombrero offers a choice of search engines, my choice being https://duckduckgo.com/lite https://duckduckgo.com/lite Perhaps DuckDuckGo could acquire a ddg.* domain to make it easier to access?
- claudius 13y ago
  Such as ddg.gg?
- MatthewPhillips 13y ago
  Was not aware of /lite. Love it!
- stevewillows 13y ago
  as mentioned, ddg.gg is active.

guelo 13y ago

The actual English "I searched for it" abstracts the implementation allowing you to switch out the underlying engine without replacing your verbal communication interface.

BHSPitMonkey 13y ago
This, of course, is not as favorable for viral marketing.

roc 13y ago

I don't understand the fascination with Google competitors needing to have an easily "verb"ed brand. People never felt the need to verb their search engines before Google. [1] Nor do they now feel the need to verb any other search engine, host, portal, network or huge site like imdb, facebook, wikipedia or amazon. [2] [1] Hotbotted? AltaVista'd? Lycos'd? Yahoo'd? Asked Jeeves? Did any normals ever say any of those things? [2] "Tweet" is as close as any other service has come to google-style verbing of their brand by the general public. And that's only the case when you stretch the definition of 'general public'.

X-Istence 13y ago
Yahoo'd is an actual term I have heard people use. So the verbing is there with that one!
BCharlie 13y ago
facebooked is also a frequent use
laumars 13y ago
There's "photoshopped". In fact it's often shortened to just "shopped". Even before the internet, verbing was happening. Hoover is a brand of vacuum and people say "hoovered" / "hoovering".
nikcub 13y ago
Xerox, Post-it, Frisbee, Roller Blades, Q-tips, White Out, Windex, Viagra, Aspirin, Escalator, Zip-loc, Scotch tape, Polaroid, Jacuzzi, Walkman, Velcro, Super glue All become common English words, many of them in the dictionary but started as brands. There are plenty more if you go back to the 19th century (eg. Heroin) edit: Wikipedia has a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...
- roc 13y ago
  You seem to be agreeing with me. If "Googled" goes the way of "Xeroxed" then the potential value of "DuckDuckGo-ed" is as irrelevant as "Ricoh-ed".

hnriot 13y ago

Shouldn't you say you Bing'd it since DDG use Bing for the actual search.

boyter 13y ago
That's not strictly true. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test compare to http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=test&lr=20996 http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=test&lr=20996 http://www.bing.com/search?q=test&go=&qs=bs&form=QBRE http://www.bing.com/search?q=test&go=&qs=bs&form... Shows that the results appear to be coming from Yandex not Bing, which is what DDG says on the page. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck Appears to be sourced from Bing, but to say its just Bing is incorrect. Also the top zero click info is sourced from all over the place (I should know as I provide some of them).
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atlbeer 13y ago

ddg'd it (dee, dee, gee'd)

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