Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo
by IsaacL on Monday August 22, 2011 @06:57AM
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I agree. Google became a verb because the search engine was successful, not the other way around. Furthermore:
- Microsoft spent pots of cash trying to verbify their search engine with their "bing and decide" commercials. As far as I know, this hasn't worked for them.
- IIRC Google themselves tend to use the form "do a Google search" - or they risk losing their trademark.
- Duck Duck Go is a catchy name - three punchy syllables. (I've recently become a fan of The Name Inspector's blog).
- And people should definitely stop using "pivot" when they just mean "change". Or "disruptive" when they mean "new". It's the startup equivalent of the crystal healers who use words like "quantum" to sound more intelligent.
- Microsoft spent pots of cash trying to verbify their search engine with their "bing and decide" commercials. As far as I know, this hasn't worked for them.
- IIRC Google themselves tend to use the form "do a Google search" - or they risk losing their trademark.
- Duck Duck Go is a catchy name - three punchy syllables. (I've recently become a fan of The Name Inspector's blog).
- And people should definitely stop using "pivot" when they just mean "change". Or "disruptive" when they mean "new". It's the startup equivalent of the crystal healers who use words like "quantum" to sound more intelligent.