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There was a rant by some other HN user about how DDG owns "duck.com" yet refuses to just point it to a search page.

duck.com DOES redirect to duckduckgo.com. IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect, but once DDG got ownership they redirected it.

Visiting the page incognito, you're hit with a modal dialogue that you have to dismiss before you can search.

This does not happen in FireFox. Are you suggesting Google is still playing dumb games?

I can repro this in Firefox. Are you disabling Javascript?

Ahhh found it. uBlock was preventing it. I can reproduce now.

> IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect

AIUI duck.com used to be a redirect-- to google.com. Very confusing for actual DDG users. IIRC Google got the domain as part of acquiring On2, some sort of video codec company, at a time when DDG wasn't nearly as popular as it is today.

somehow google managed to become the best search engine with a goofy name so I don't really think it's that important.

my vote is for -- quackquackdoc