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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by prakash on Sunday February 01, 2009 @11:32AM (#460973)
would you be talking about it if the name was something else? Brand is a BIG part of any new search engine, one portion of it is remembering the name -- kinda hard to forget one with the name DuckDuckGo.
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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by paul7986 on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:23PM (#461032)
Yeah what seems silly, odd & out of the ordinary often becomes successful. Gets people talking!

Look at the Snuggie craze, which keeps you warm yet looks totally ridiculous!

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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by axod on Sunday February 01, 2009 @02:34PM (#461207)
Very easy to forget IMHO, and hard to remember if it's duckduckgo, duckgoduck, gogoduck, duckgo, goduck, etc etc
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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by iron_ball on Sunday February 01, 2009 @04:45PM (#461430)
No, it's easy to remember, if you remember the childrens' game "Duck Duck Goose." If you don't know the game, then yeah, the URL is just pretty nonsensical.
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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by axod on Sunday February 01, 2009 @05:18PM (#461489)
Ah. Is this an American game perhaps? Never heard of it. Thanks for explaining. May hamper global adoption :)
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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by epi0Bauqu on Sunday February 01, 2009 @06:24PM (#461586)
Yeah, it's an american thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Duck_Goose

I think pretty much all Americans know it instantly. I'm sure some will pipe up here not knowing it now...it's their queue :)

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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by wheels on Sunday February 01, 2009 @08:37PM (#461717)
I knew the game once being reminded of it, but I didn't immediately make the connection reading about Duck Duck Go.

I'd throw another hat in the ring of, "Yeah, a better name would help."

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Re:DuckDuckGo is top result for "new search engine" by mattmaroon on Sunday February 01, 2009 @12:43PM (#461061)
I would if it were on Hacker News. Other than this thread, I'll have forgotten about it by tomorrow.
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