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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by ChrisRR on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:23AM (#18664623)
Incognito search in the UK here:

1st result: Wikipedia Duck

2nd: Wooden Ducks

3rd: BBC duck recipes

4th: Toilet duck cleaner

5th: BBC iplayer, Sarah and Duck

It goes on. The only mention of duckduckgo on the first 5 pages is this recent news

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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by Retr0spectrum on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:27AM (#18664669)
Same experience here. I wonder if this is some kind of bug?
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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by Arnt on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:33AM (#18664720)
It's locale sensitivity.

Duck doesn't mean very much in Germany, so there's little that competes with duck.com. In Britain duck has many other meanings.

If you search for an abbreviation that's commonly used as company name, you may find that Google's top result is the one near you, and that the eponymous company in Petrapavlovsk isn't listed.

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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by ChrisRR on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:36AM (#18664744)
I doubt it's a bug. I think we just eat a lot of duck in the UK. Additionally I've never heard of duckduckgo referred to by just duck
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