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Google Throws DuckDuckGo a Bone, Adds Redirect on duck.com Landing Page

posted by martyb on Sunday July 22 2018, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-ducks-in-a-row dept.

takyon writes:

Google owns Duck.com, but it'll give rival DuckDuckGo a shoutout anyhow

Google owns Duck.com, which has been driving rival search engine DuckDuckGo up the wall for over six years. Because when you type "duck.com" into a web browser, you get Google.com. Doesn't make a lot of sense, yes?

But after a new round of complaints this Friday, Google has relented. Google comms VP Rob Shilkin just quacked tweeted that a new landing page will give people an opportunity to click from Duck.com straight through to DuckDuckGo. Or to the Wikipedia page for ducks, because that's only fair.

From on2.com:

Please note that On2 was previously called the Duck Corporation. So if you typed Duck.com, you are redirected to On2.com:

  • If you meant to visit ducks.com, click here. Note that it redirects to Bass Pro Shops.
  • If you meant to visit the search engine DuckDuckGo, click here.
  • If you want to learn more about ducks on Wikipedia, click here.

Related: DuckDuckGo Is Google's Tiniest Fiercest Competitor

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by vux984 on Sunday July 22 2018, @06:49PM (6 children)

    by vux984 (5045) on Sunday July 22 2018, @06:49PM (#710837)

    I default to duckduckgo. I use google when it doesn't find what i want. I rarely use bing. And I use the 'bang' notation of duckduckgo to trivially search alternate sources.

    Perhaps ironically, in the process of writing this reply, I realized I often use bangs right from the firefox address bar, for dictionarys, wikis, etc.. (which defaults to to duckduckgo), and when searching for images ill often do "!gi something" to search google images... not because i specifically want google images, i just want images... but i didnt know how to search duckduckgo images via a bang...

    Sometimes its odd where the gaps are in ones knowledge and how long they persist. TIL:

    dgi! something

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:42PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @07:42PM (#710853)

    I searched for bang images ... I did not anticipate the results. :-/

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday July 23 2018, @12:07AM (2 children)

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 23 2018, @12:07AM (#710954) Journal

      Interesting. Apparently Duckduckgo ranks porn sites higher than does Google (unless Google just filters them out).

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      Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 23 2018, @05:39PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday July 23 2018, @05:39PM (#711337) Journal

      I searched for bang images

      What? is that similar to Googling something?

  • (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:37PM

    by dry (223) on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:37PM (#710919) Journal

    It's the default search engine in SeaMonkey and using it means the SeaMonkey Foundation gets a bit of money, which they need to keep up with the changes that Mozilla makes. For most stuff it works well and as you say, it is easy to add a !g or whatever to search an alternate.