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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.


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!


Very easy to forget IMHO, and hard to remember if it's duckduckgo, duckgoduck, gogoduck, duckgo, goduck, etc etc


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.


Ah. Is this an American game perhaps? Never heard of it. Thanks for explaining. May hamper global adoption :)


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 :)


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."


I would if it were on Hacker News. Other than this thread, I'll have forgotten about it by tomorrow.




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