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Comment by kybernetyk | Hacker News Reader

Some days ago I saw an ad for DuckDuckGo on 4chan and found it pretty funny. A squirrel was searching for "traps", "clop clop", etc. and the duck anonymized the search.

If the add was really made by the DDG guys they earned some respect from me for having a sense of humor.

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They provided a boilerplate version of the ad and I gave them the 4chan-appropriate keywords to use with it. They've always been great to work with re: advertising.

Wow, Moot reads Hacker News. Not surprising, but pleases me greatly. Thank you for your contributions to the great shared halucination that is the internet.

Or maybe someone just tipped him off.

Trivia: I just opened his HN profile to see when was his account created, and by some strange coincidence we have exactly the same karma (443). Either that or it's bug in HN :)

443 is the default port of https.

This must all be some NSA conspiracy.

+1 to you sir. You should have 1k's of karma for providing us 4chan wherein memes are made.

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Here they are:

http://i.imgur.com/7glexKr.gif

http://i.imgur.com/h2InV8b.gif

http://i.imgur.com/vIbQ0k6.gif

http://i.imgur.com/de1Fbk9.gif

You're missing two and you could have just linked to them directly.

http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/138e312ae98649519c65ab9... clop clop

http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/c4540c893c364440a4a92ef... naruto

http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/56535b83936f4509b6ca83e... traps

http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/edd868a2e4714924bc1d16f... dragon dildos

http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/86ed704ae2ad40ef98dc008... aids

http://support.4chan.org/Advertisers/262106d1caf7400f98089a4... reddit

The anonymous "reddit" search on 4chan is quite funny.

so tempted to search those terms. WTF is clop clop?

So that others don't have to search, it's brony porn, where 'brony' means 'middle-aged man who's obsessed with the "My Little Pony" television show. NSFW, obviously.

When I found out, I realized I didn't really want to know.

There has been DuckDuckGo ads on the NSFW boards for months. I have no source for this, but I remember reading that it was some kind of partnership between DuckDuckGo and 4chan.

Yes, it's been there for almost a year: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html (note the label 'L').

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