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As I’ve said twice already now: DDG is a shitty name for those of us might want to use the company name as a verb.

My comment is no more profound than that.

I’m not making any comment about social norms. And nor am I saying it’s impossible to describe searching for content online without “verbing” the company name.

I’m just saying DDG is hard to use as a verb.

Edit: I did say “adverb” in my previous comment. Obviously I meant “verb”. My painkillers hadn’t kicked in yet so excuse the faux pas there.

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In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG". Not everything needs to be a jingle I suppose..

https://dgg.gg for those who prefer it better than ddg :)


> In my experience, I've introduced DGG* to some colleagues and friends and later on, the feedback received was "I now use DGG"

I use DDG too, but that’s not the point of the original comment.

> Not everything needs to be a jingle I suppose..

While true, what’s also true is that jingles exist precisely because they are effective messaging. And DDG is missing out on that. Hence the comments about verbing.




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