“Having will make it easier for people to use DuckDuckGo.

“We’re pleased Google has chosen to transfer ownership of to DuckDuckGo,” said Weinberg at the time. DuckDuckGo is available as a search engine option in a broad range of niche browsers. Last December, DuckDuckGo acquired the domain from Google, which now redirects to the search engine. DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, has launched an extension feature that allows users to block Google’s FLoC (Google’s new tracking system) for Chrome. “That means there was an affirmative decision somewhere along the line to redirect that particular domain to their search product.” “Google owns lots of domains that don’t point anywhere, or not to their main search page,” said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg in a 2010 post on the company’s support forum. DuckDuckGo’s browser extension for Chrome is another option to block FLoC. In a series of tweets in 2018, DuckDuckGo accused Google of abusing its power to hinder the search engine’s proliferation on the Chrome and Android platforms - namely by making it impossible to change the default search provider in Android’s search widget, which uses Google searches.Īnd after acquiring the domain through the 2010 purchase of video technology company On2 (formerly The Duck Corporation), Google redirected the URL to its own search page.

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