[jzzskijj]

I was quite surprised to learn this has nothing to do with DDG. Interesting how DDG seem to have taken the meaning of "duck" in (my) mind.

[godelski]

What's more interesting is that DDG had disputes with Google over the ownership of the duck.com domain. Google was squatting on the domain and redirected it to Google (dirty tactic). But I guess it could just as easily have gone to the Oregon Ducks or some duck based website. (interestingly "ducks.com" doesn't go anywhere for me)

[ca98am79]

Google became the owner of Duck.com back in 2010 when it acquired On2 Technologies, a company formerly known as The Duck Corporation. It gifted the domain to DuckDuckGo in 2018

[GordonS]

Hmm, I remember it differently, with Google redirecting duck.com to DDG, and then later just handing the domain over to them.

[voxadam]

You're remembering things correctly. The WHOIS record for duck.com shows that it's owned by Duck Duck Go, Inc.

[bil7]

google already does enough atrocious things, you don't have to make them up.