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Some days ago I saw an ad for DuckDuckGo on 4chan and found it pretty funny. A squirrel was searching for "traps", "clop clop", etc. and the duck anonymized the

Some days ago I saw an ad for DuckDuckGo on 4chan and found it pretty funny. A squirrel was searching for "traps", "clop clop", etc. and the duck anonymized the search. If the add was really made by the DDG guys they earned some respect from me for having a sense of humor.

moot 13y ago
They provided a boilerplate version of the ad and I gave them the 4chan-appropriate keywords to use with it. They've always been great to work with re: advertising.
- dreadheart 13y ago
  Wow, Moot reads Hacker News. Not surprising, but pleases me greatly. Thank you for your contributions to the great shared halucination that is the internet.
  - babuskov 13y ago
    Or maybe someone just tipped him off. Trivia: I just opened his HN profile to see when was his account created, and by some strange coincidence we have exactly the same karma (443). Either that or it's bug in HN :)
    - georgemcbay 13y ago
      443 is the default port of https. This must all be some NSA conspiracy.
    - deleted 13y ago
      [deleted]
- wheaties 13y ago
  +1 to you sir. You should have 1k's of karma for providing us 4chan wherein memes are made.
- logn 13y ago
  (User was banned for this post)
Spittie 13y ago
There has been DuckDuckGo ads on the NSFW boards for months. I have no source for this, but I remember reading that it was some kind of partnership between DuckDuckGo and 4chan.
- chimeracoder 13y ago
  Yes, it's been there for almost a year: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html (note the label 'L').
jjthompson5 13y ago
Here they are: http://i.imgur.com/7glexKr.gif http://i.imgur.com/7glexKr.gif http://i.imgur.com/h2InV8b.gif http://i.imgur.com/h2InV8b.gif http://i.imgur.com/vIbQ0k6.gif http://i.imgur.com/vIbQ0k6.gif http://i.imgur.com/de1Fbk9.gif http://i.imgur.com/de1Fbk9.gif
- fdm 13y ago
  You're missing two and you could have just linked to them directly. http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/138e312ae98649519c65ab9caf29de36.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/138e312ae98649519c65ab9... clop clop http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/c4540c893c364440a4a92efb4ae8a3a9.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/c4540c893c364440a4a92ef... naruto http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/56535b83936f4509b6ca83e112d8202a.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/56535b83936f4509b6ca83e... traps http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/edd868a2e4714924bc1d16f70b88cb21.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/edd868a2e4714924bc1d16f... dragon dildos http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/86ed704ae2ad40ef98dc008ff66c9907.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/86ed704ae2ad40ef98dc008... aids http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/262106d1caf7400f98089a449adebdee.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/262106d1caf7400f98089a4... reddit
  - zombio 13y ago
    The anonymous "reddit" search on 4chan is quite funny.
- adrr 13y ago
  so tempted to search those terms. WTF is clop clop?
  - trobertson 13y ago
    So that others don't have to search, it's brony porn, where 'brony' means 'middle-aged man who's obsessed with the "My Little Pony" television show. NSFW, obviously.
  - eli_gottlieb 13y ago

moot 13y ago

They provided a boilerplate version of the ad and I gave them the 4chan-appropriate keywords to use with it. They've always been great to work with re: advertising.

dreadheart 13y ago
Wow, Moot reads Hacker News. Not surprising, but pleases me greatly. Thank you for your contributions to the great shared halucination that is the internet.
- babuskov 13y ago
  Or maybe someone just tipped him off. Trivia: I just opened his HN profile to see when was his account created, and by some strange coincidence we have exactly the same karma (443). Either that or it's bug in HN :)
  - georgemcbay 13y ago
    443 is the default port of https. This must all be some NSA conspiracy.
  - deleted 13y ago
    [deleted]
wheaties 13y ago
+1 to you sir. You should have 1k's of karma for providing us 4chan wherein memes are made.
logn 13y ago
(User was banned for this post)

Spittie 13y ago

There has been DuckDuckGo ads on the NSFW boards for months. I have no source for this, but I remember reading that it was some kind of partnership between DuckDuckGo and 4chan.

chimeracoder 13y ago
Yes, it's been there for almost a year: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html (note the label 'L').

jjthompson5 13y ago

Here they are: http://i.imgur.com/7glexKr.gif http://i.imgur.com/7glexKr.gif http://i.imgur.com/h2InV8b.gif http://i.imgur.com/h2InV8b.gif http://i.imgur.com/vIbQ0k6.gif http://i.imgur.com/vIbQ0k6.gif http://i.imgur.com/de1Fbk9.gif http://i.imgur.com/de1Fbk9.gif

fdm 13y ago
You're missing two and you could have just linked to them directly. http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/138e312ae98649519c65ab9caf29de36.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/138e312ae98649519c65ab9... clop clop http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/c4540c893c364440a4a92efb4ae8a3a9.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/c4540c893c364440a4a92ef... naruto http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/56535b83936f4509b6ca83e112d8202a.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/56535b83936f4509b6ca83e... traps http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/edd868a2e4714924bc1d16f70b88cb21.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/edd868a2e4714924bc1d16f... dragon dildos http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/86ed704ae2ad40ef98dc008ff66c9907.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/86ed704ae2ad40ef98dc008... aids http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/262106d1caf7400f98089a449adebdee.gif http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/262106d1caf7400f98089a4... reddit
- zombio 13y ago
  The anonymous "reddit" search on 4chan is quite funny.
adrr 13y ago
so tempted to search those terms. WTF is clop clop?
- trobertson 13y ago
  So that others don't have to search, it's brony porn, where 'brony' means 'middle-aged man who's obsessed with the "My Little Pony" television show. NSFW, obviously.
- eli_gottlieb 13y ago