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That’s a complete derailment. This is about the experience that search users should have. If they want to search for “russia official statements ukraine” then t
by avgcorrection 5y ago
That’s a complete derailment. This is about the experience that search users should have. If they want to search for “russia official statements ukraine” then they should get results about that.
The fact that Russia has decided to outlaw the truth is completely besides the point.
- awb 5y agoResults on Google and DDG for that query are pretty similar and mostly Western sources written in English, responding to Russian official statements. I’d be curious if there were other search terms that had a clearer difference in rankings between Google and DDG based on this new policy.
- notahacker 5y ago> The fact that Russia has decided to outlaw the truth is completely besides the point. It's not when we're talking about whether search results produced by the state which banned telling the truth should be given equal weight to search results by media which is allowed to tell the truth (even though it doesn't always do so) in search rankings It's not difficult to find official statements from Russia on the Ukraine war including via DDG, without going down the rabbit hole of insisting that if someone searches for "shelling Kyiv" there's no reason why websites pushing the narrative that Kyiv isn't being shelled shouldn't outrank news items of Kyiv being shelled if their SEO is good enough.