Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by adrr on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:02PM (#18667731)

They could have sold it for $1 with a clause stating that ddg wouldn't partake in any antitrust action brought by any foreign government for 2 years. Value to Google would be worth tens or hundreds of millions in potential fines or revenue risk.

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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by tomcatfish on Thursday December 13, 2018 @12:12AM (#18669992)

Then DDG obviously would have just said no? I think the idea is that it was a political move meant to show a sense of goodwill between the two to the public, not to force DDG to be subservient to them in some way.

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Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo by adrr on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:07PM (#18674514)

That's why I put two years. I don't think any company would agree to a longer term.

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