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Re:DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and c... by ma2rten on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:34PM (#17577601)
This is old news:

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/30/we-bet-you-dont-kn...

The name was actually part of an acquisition.

I understand why DuckDuckGo is not happy about this and/or trying to use this for PR. However, I don't think a lot of people are going confuse DuckDuckGo and Google, since DDG users are typically making a conscious choice to use it over Big G.

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Re:DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and c... by ralfd on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:38PM (#17577650)
We actually discussed it 8 years ago too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691

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Re:DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and c... by ma2rten on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:41PM (#17577687)
This is off topic, but there has been quite the point inflation since then.

EDIT: Too bad we can't see the comment scores... I wonder if PG is ever going to change his mind about this :)

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