[HowardStark]

Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo.

That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...

[celestialcheese]

duck.com was owned by google from an acquisition in 2010.

It was sold to DDG in 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...

[jordanmoconnor]

Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.

[julienfr112]

Even more funny, what about google financing a competiting browser ? wait ...

[cigaser]

It is using Bing engine and data.

[magnusmundus]

...among other sources. "Over four hundred" [1] of them.

[1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

[Seirdy]

Those apply only to non-organic results (instant answers, zero-click info). Organic results are proxied from Bing (or sometimes Yandex) verbatim.

DuckDuckGo's crawlers only fetch icons and scrape data for some of their instant answers.

[skinnymuch]

They aren’t really used for the actual index. Bing represents 95% of their actual index.

[anoonmoose]

That would make it even funnier!

[cigaser]

It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.

[kortilla]

Whoosh. The joke is that Google owns DDG despite it being backed by Bing.

[vmception]

Hilarious even, but I wouldn’t be mad though

[seriousquestion]

And if Signal was actually the NSA.

[gtirloni]

In December 2018, it was reported that Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo. It is not known what price, if any, DuckDuckGo paid for the domain name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

[sneak]

Being a "competitor" that a monopolist can point to as faux evidence of their not-monopoly status is far beyond any simple integer price.

[vmception]

Especially since we need BigNumber to represent the real dollar value at stake

[Sephr]

iirc this was originally owned by Google and then given to DDG.

[butt__hugger]

This is correct. It used to redirect to Google.