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Title    Google Throws DuckDuckGo a Bone, Adds Redirect on duck.com Landing Page
Date    Sunday July 22 2018, @05:19PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the all-your-ducks-in-a-row dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/21/157231

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:

Related: DuckDuckGo Is Google's Tiniest Fiercest Competitor


Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Google owns Duck.com, but it'll give rival DuckDuckGo a shoutout anyhow" - https://www.cnet.com/news/google-owns-duck-com-but-itll-give-rival-duckduckgo-a-shoutout-anyhow/
  3. "DuckDuckGo" - https://www.cnet.com/news/search-anonymously-on-your-phone-with-duckduckgo/
  4. "duck.com" - http://duck.com/
  5. "a new round of complaints" - https://www.cnet.com/news/today-i-learned-duck-com-redirects-to-google-much-to-duckduckgos-annoyance/
  6. "tweeted" - https://twitter.com/robshilkin/status/1020458019174223872
  7. "on2.com" - http://www.on2.com/
  8. "ducks.com" - http://www.ducks.com/
  9. "here" - https://basspro.com/
  10. "here" - https://duckduckgo.com/
  11. "here" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck
  12. "DuckDuckGo Is Google's Tiniest Fiercest Competitor" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/20/2132253
  13. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=27998

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