“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. 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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