<story><title>Duck.com (not the search engine you might expect)</title><url>http://www.duck.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rglover</author><text>I get &lt;i&gt;how&lt;/i&gt; this could be confusing (after all, a lot of people access URLs by googling them first). Regardless, this isn&apos;t Google being evil but rather, taking advantage of a fortunate coincidence. They acquired a company in the past that owned a domain. Ironically, that domain happens to be similar to a competitor in the present. They have no immediate use for the domain, but why not redirect it to Google (just in case someone was trying to get to their competitor)? That&apos;s not evil, that&apos;s business. If DDG is that concerned about it, make an offer to Google for the domain name.</text></comment>
<story><title>Duck.com (not the search engine you might expect)</title><url>http://www.duck.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epi0Bauqu</author><text>Backstory: &lt;a href=&quot;https://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://duck.co/topic/duck-com-redirects-to-google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr no reason (IMHO) it should point to Google search -- it&apos;s just confusing people.</text></comment>