Me: "Ducking Donald"
Siri: "Duck Search found a McDonald's two blocks away, should I reserve you a table?"
>When many lower-income Americans are feeling isolated by the deadening uniformity of things, by the emptiness of many jobs, by the media, they still yearn for physical social networks. They are not doing this by going to government-run community service centers. They are not always doing this by utilizing the endless array of well-intentioned not-for-profit outreach programs. They are doing this on their own, organically across the country, in McDonald’s.
(Wondered if I could use this in Dutch too, but decided against it due to the seminal connotations of ‘kwak’…)
For me it’s a constant battle of teaching and reteaching it the different manners of expressing passion and frustration. That’s the one thing I liked about Google’s keyboard on Android: that you could enable “sailor-mouth mode”. They called it something boring though like “Suggest profane words”.
I never wrote she was rubbing her clit on my phone. I swear.
You can also use ddg.gg.
Anyway, I use the Firefox "smart bookmarks" (I don't know if it's the correct name), i.e. naming the bookmark search, so "gg foo" is for searching foo on Google, "dd bar" is for searching bar on DuckDuck, "w baz" is for Wikipedia, "dbts #number" is for the "Debian bug tracking system" and so on...
I think name change must be done. The name is too weird to go mainstream. Think of international customers too. I don't think I want to introduce it to my non English native parents, maybe they'll think it as some weird game.
"Did you duck it?" sounds like asking if one dodged it.
No longer will you have to say "Did you DuckDuckGo it?" and can instead say "Did you Duck it?".
Even on the domain alone I will use Duck more since I won't have to type in the full DuckDuckGo.com domain.
I _feel_ like this could really bring some measurable growth to Duck search. I _feel_ like I certainly will use it more and talk about it more. Time will tell.