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

guest · Jul 21, 2018

Google owns Duck.com, but it'll give rival DuckDuckGo a shoutout anyhow
Update: Google has relented.
July 20, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-owns-duck-com-but-itll-give-rival-duckduckgo-a-shoutout-anyhow/

Google owns Duck.com, which has been driving rival search engine DuckDuckGoup 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.

Either way, DuckDuckGo seems happy by the change.
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ronjor · Dec 12, 2018

Google just gave DuckDuckGo a huge boost–giving it duck.com

By Michael Grothaus 12.12.18
While not Google’s biggest search competitor by far, many who are leery about Google scooping up so much information about our web activity have transitioned to using the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo. But until this week, DuckDuckGo users could only access the search engine by via the URL duckduckgo.com. That’s because previous to this week, the simpler domain duck.com was owned by Google and routed to Google’s home page.
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