This is the Internet. Confidence and reassurance and professionalism are alien concepts to an entity envisioned, built, and maintained by unshaven and very odd people.
The Internet is based on the work of extremely silly people, who just happened to be formidable enough to make their iconoclasm the standard.
DuckDuckGo is exactly the kind of silly, eccentric name that reassures me of competence. Never trust a serious man if you want to change the world.
Everything that you said is correct. However, the majority of people that use the Internet are different. I don't have any data to back this up, but all the non-tech people I've ever interacted with think that "unprofessional looking = untrustworthy"
The Internet is based on the work of extremely silly people, who just happened to be formidable enough to make their iconoclasm the standard.
DuckDuckGo is exactly the kind of silly, eccentric name that reassures me of competence. Never trust a serious man if you want to change the world.