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They own duck.com and it redirects to their site. They should just adopt "duck.com" as their main brand, which will inevitably get shortened to "Duck" in everyday conversation.

Then we can turn it into a verb. "Go Duck <term>"

They could even capitalize on the famous autocorrect substitutions: "Need an answer? Duck it!"




Are you telling me to go duck myself?


Wow. I did not know this. They should absolutely do as you suggest. Duck is a far better name.


IIRC, Google actually owned duck.com until a few years back, when they voluntarily handed it over to DDG.


FWIW, because On2 aka Duck TrueMotion —> VP3-VP7


I once worked with an "interesting" guy who had a tshirt that read "If you can't duck it, fuck it" over an image of a roll of duct tape.


Unfortunately Apple's autocorrect has totally hijacked the meaning of "Go duck ___"




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