Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently?

Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? by watertorock on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:59PM (#14607912)

Unrelated but I wish they would rebrand already. Call it Duck, call it Go, call it something simple.

It's not an easy or memorable name at the moment, and branding matters.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? by thedaemon on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:37PM (#14608575)

I can only guess that it come from the game "Duck, Duck, Goose", which is really easy to remember if you played it as a child.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? by nostromo123 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:31AM (#14610878)

Must be a US-centric cultural thing -- I always thought this was just a random sequence of words the creators thought would be memorable and / or cute!

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Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? by majewsky on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:20AM (#14611389)

I thankfully watched the Simpsons, where that game was referenced once. So I got the pun after only a year or so.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? by watertorock on Friday June 23, 2017 @12:42PM (#14620513)

I played that as a kid and never once connected it to the search engine.

I really think it's a poor name choice

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Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? by h1d on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:40AM (#14617789)

Even worse as name only suggests US? game for kids. Users should be from all over the world.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? by thomastjeffery on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:27PM (#14609933)

It's a mouthful, but it's certainly sensible to me. Searching the web tends to be a lot like "duck duck goose".

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