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Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by unfasten on Monday August 22, 2011 @07:18AM (#2912102)
From a previous discussion on it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691 here's a quote from Gabriel:

"""To be fair, it came as an asset in an unrelated acquisition (On2). But it just sat their (pointing to this Duck Corporation history page) for a long time.

I first inquired about it on 11/4/09. After several attempts, I got back a response "from management" on 3/25/10 that they didn't want to sell it. Understandable.

Now http://www.on2.com/ points to a Google explanation page about the On2 acquisition, yet http://duck.com/ points directly to Google search."""

Also discussed a little bit on the DDG community forum: http://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google

Re:The curious case of DuckDuckGo by mdaniel on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:35PM (#2917472)
Thank you, that was very helpful and informative.