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Don't fall for it duckduckgo!

If you change your name to duck, your name will no longer be searchable!

It's a trap!

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck&ia=web works fine for me ;)

You had to already know about it though.

That is a foul.

Or, more accurately, a water-foul.

It's the second result on Google, too: https://www.google.com/search?q=duck

Using an incognito window

7th for me (not counting the callout stories/maps/videos sections that split up the results)

Personalized results

How? I'm at work (so tracking me personally by IP is probably hard since there's hundreds of different people using the same IP) and using an incognito window. Using a different browser (that I used once or twice), incognito again, gives me the same result.

https://thenextweb.com/google/2018/12/05/google-reportedly-p...

This sends a clear message: Bing should adopt a duck theme and try to get duck searches directed towards itself.

It's not even on the first page for me (logged in, in the UK.)

5th for me with this as information:

  DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.
  https://duckduckgo.com/
  The Internet privacy company that empowers you to 
  seamlessly take control of your personal information 
  online, without any tradeoffs.

‎ Other Settings · ‎DuckDuckGo Search Box · ‎About DuckDuckGo · ‎Press Kit

Although the word search is mentioned in the info I would not make this out as a alternative search engine at first glance.

Well that's on DuckDuckGo. They could make it more obvious if they wanted. Interestingly, when searching duck, DuckDuckGo went from 2nd to 1st.

First result for me.

Since Google results almost always vary by geographic location, according to the bottom of the page, Google thinks I'm in "Bernalillo County, New Mexico."

I have no idea where that is. I haven't been to New Mexico in close to 20 years. I'm currently almost 1,000 miles away from New Mexico.

Good jorb, Google.

Nineth for me, Italy, not logged in

You're making me feel down, Ma' llard.

My wife and I used to breed ducks and have a duck farm. We were quack addicts, and quack dealers. I could go on and on.

Please do.

They better duck this one.

When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.

your experience is biased because they give you results based on your google profile.

I just tried it in Incognito, corporate VPN going through Virginia. DuckDuckGo was second result.

For me, DuckDuckGo is second after Duck on Wikipedia (from US).

If it's really a trap like parent suggests, then Google will just change that behavior later on, right?

It was sarcastic, the audience of DDG does not need a search engine to find a search engine. In case of WoM, it's easier to hint a friend to go to duck.com

Incognito search in the UK here:

1st result: Wikipedia Duck

2nd: Wooden Ducks

3rd: BBC duck recipes

4th: Toilet duck cleaner

5th: BBC iplayer, Sarah and Duck

It goes on. The only mention of duckduckgo on the first 5 pages is this recent news

Same experience here. I wonder if this is some kind of bug?

It's locale sensitivity.

Duck doesn't mean very much in Germany, so there's little that competes with duck.com. In Britain duck has many other meanings.

If you search for an abbreviation that's commonly used as company name, you may find that Google's top result is the one near you, and that the eponymous company in Petrapavlovsk isn't listed.

I doubt it's a bug. I think we just eat a lot of duck in the UK. Additionally I've never heard of duckduckgo referred to by just duck

Strangely, searching from the UK it doesn't seem to be in my results at all. I'm through to the 4th page, and I've come across an article with the same story as the OP, but still not the actual site...

Edit: found it near the end of page 6! Alongside "Duck Donuts" and "London Duck Tours".

To add to the "did it come first list", search from the Netherlands:

1st is EN wikipedia with "Duck"

2nd is DuckDuckGo

3rd and on is several restaurants with "duck" in the name.

So it probably is location/language related to some extend.

Just to be sure, I just asked bing.com for "duck". I never, ever, EVER use bing, so unless they get their search results from someone else, they should be relatively unbiased.

Once more, duckduckgo.com comes up as the first result. Once more, from _Germany_. "duck" is a German word (imperative, as in "duck and cover"), but it is really rare, so I would not be surprised if the search results were biased in favor of our new fowl overlords. But I don't think it's all filter bubble, either.

In the US for me it's the 4th link after wikipedia, the restaurant results insert, wikitonary, and Merriam-Webster. Not bad honestly.

Colorado checking in. Results for "duck" ...

a. Top stories [not organic result]

1. Wikipedia

b. Maps to "duck" restaurants [not organic]

2. Wiktionary

3. allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/shape/Ducks

4. Merriam Webster

5. Related article from theverge.com

6. duckduckgo.com

Incognito search from Iowa.

Top hit - duckduckgo.com

It wouldn't take very long for that to change at all. People don't really search "duck" much, so it seems reasonable that duckduckgo would quickly climb to #1 for searching "duck".

And it's already #1 for me (but that's likely because I've used the site before, and Google knows that)

less searchable, but free advertising from gboard...

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