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
quackedtweeted 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:
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @08:19PM (3 children)
Are you saying DDG users are stupid?
(Score: 4, Informative) by unauthorized on Sunday July 22 2018, @08:39PM (2 children)
No, he is saying that stupid people make most of the population (which is obviously an oxymoron since obviously that cannot be true by definition) and getting rid of them is economically disadvantageous if your revenue model predicates on having a large consumer base to be successful.
The smart people run ad blockers so DDG doesn't even earn anything from them, unlike Google who can at least do some first party tracking on you even if you block ads and third party trackers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by dry on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:41PM
DDG just has a couple of one line ads (clearly marked) at the top of the search results. Not much for an ad blocker to block and at least I don't mind them.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @05:32AM
By what definition? There is no inherent reason that most of the population can't be considered stupid; it depends on the standard.