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It's not the results. It's that DDG doesn't censor.
by sigzero 5y ago
It's not the results. It's that DDG doesn't censor.
- inigojonesguy 5y agoDDG does not censor is false: https://telegra.ph/file/1973bcdc321e78cc75172.png https://telegra.ph/file/1973bcdc321e78cc75172.png
- uo21tp5hoyg 5y agoThe same results were missing from Duckduckgo too.
- warhorse10_9 5y agoThe results were missing from DDG ecause DDG gets its results from Bing. It is about the active choice to censor which Bing made, not DDG.
- jfrunyon 5y ago"A company did something bad. Let's hurt them by continuing to give them revenue."
- uo21tp5hoyg 5y agoYou make a good point in the difference in active choice but to say duckduckgo doesn't censor results is inaccurate is it does even if by proxy of where it sources those results from. I do feel this is a no-win situation for DDG and I don't think anyone should hold this situation against them as they seem to be caught up in it against their will.
- franczesko 5y agoBecause DDG uses Bing's API. DDG's results are literally the same as Bing's.
- dredmorbius 5y agoDDG is (largely) a pass-through proxy for search from Bing (both Web and image) and for Russian-language media, Yandex. It maintains a number of specific search bots that mostly provide its intsant-answers content. (This is based on interpretation of very unclearly worded statements and comments from DDG over the years.) DDG may not censor results itself, but it inherits the censorship policies of its search providers. (Disclaimer: I've used DDG as my primary Web search for nearly a decade, and Images since DDG image search came online. I'm strongly critical of DDG's relationship to the Tank Man image censorship issue.)