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by takee 3834 days ago
Has anyone considered that the slightly longer and forgettable name DuckDuckGo might have something to do with the low mainstream presence? I think they should rebrand and market with duckgo or maybe just duck.com if at all practically possible.
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AdamSC1 3834 days ago
We recently commented about this on a Reddit thread too (https://www.reddit.com/comments/3vtxib/duckduckgo_search_lik...)

We do have a short domain "http://ddg.gg" although it is worth noting that duck.com is owned by Google and points to their main search engine. So it's not really an option for us.

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burkaman 3834 days ago
duck.com is explained here for anyone wondering: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/epd59/google_po...

It's not necessarily nefarious, the domain came from some unrelated acquisition, but they didn't have to make duck.com point to Google.

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torvald 3834 days ago
It is probably not a big crucial factor for success, but I totally agree.
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