Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by athenot on Thursday December 02, 2021 @10:03AM (#29416978)

They own duck.com and it redirects to their site. They should just adopt "duck.com" as their main brand, which will inevitably get shortened to "Duck" in everyday conversation.

Then we can turn it into a verb. "Go Duck <term>"

They could even capitalize on the famous autocorrect substitutions: "Need an answer? Duck it!"

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by R0b0t1 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:53AM (#29418700)

Are you telling me to go duck myself?

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by mrandish on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:10AM (#29417987)

Wow. I did not know this. They should absolutely do as you suggest. Duck is a far better name.

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by GordonS on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:55PM (#29420683)

IIRC, Google actually owned duck.com until a few years back, when they voluntarily handed it over to DDG.

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by Terretta on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:45AM (#29427003)

FWIW, because On2 aka Duck TrueMotion —> VP3-VP7

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by soylentcola on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:29AM (#29418277)

I once worked with an "interesting" guy who had a tshirt that read "If you can't duck it, fuck it" over an image of a roll of duct tape.

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by kolbe on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:33AM (#29418353)

Unfortunately Apple's autocorrect has totally hijacked the meaning of "Go duck ___"

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