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> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Quite the opposite. My search results from DDG over the past year or so have
by bhrgunatha 6y ago
> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia?
Quite the opposite.
My search results from DDG over the past year or so have been infested with Russian sites, articles and even twitter account titles of English language accounts, despite not living there and not having any preference for Russian in any browsers settings or regions and never issuing a single query in Russian.
- s0l1dsnak3123 6y ago"infested" is a little much, don't you think? I can sympathise with frustration on having results that don't match your language preferences, but "infested"? Come on.
- vmception 6y agoRussia only bad. It's a generational thing.
- outworlder 6y agoBy 'generational', you mean "spanning multiple generations"?
- delaaxe 6y agoMore like, “that pertains to a given generation”
- meowface 6y agoI think the parent was retorting that anti-Russia sentiment in the US spans multiple generations.
- stephenr 6y agoNot if you’re a republican apparently.
- pjc50 6y agoThey're only against Communism. Russians with money are just fine, apparently. The logical conclusion of "money is speech" is that foreign intelligence agencies can buy as much speech as they like.
- vmception 6y agoProtip: its not just Russians playing around with sentiment in other countries for their own gains, and it is extremely easy to deflect all attention towards Russia. It can be long time allies that you harbor the least feelings about.
- newen 6y agoThe US has been doing it for well over 50 years.
- vmception 6y agoI mean the sentiment lacks nuance and it gives context to why someone would use pejorative adjectives about Russian-anything even when referring to search engine results And you can pinpoint which generations of people are likely speaking by their use of said pejoratives on otherwise benign subjects
- samatman 6y agoI understand the discomfort, but people have been describing a page of bad search results as "infested" for a long time. Perhaps it was intended as a slight against Russians, but I'd ask you to assume good faith.
- solarkraft 6y agoGoogle searches also often yield Russian sites for me, mostly what appears to be StackOverflow translations.