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I just searched for "russia today" on DDG and rt.com did NOT show up on the first page, instead the page has: aljazeera, dailymail, cnn, bbc, reuters, themoscot

I just searched for "russia today" on DDG and rt.com did NOT show up on the first page, instead the page has: aljazeera, dailymail, cnn, bbc, reuters, themoscotimes, wikipedia, cnbc, npr, and yahoo. And this is from California (Orange County).

yegg 4y ago
Not sure what is going on there (will investigate, not intentional), but try https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt&ia=web & https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+ukraine&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+ukraine&ia=web
boomboomsubban 4y ago
To be fair, they changed their name to RT over a decade ago. Neither their home page nor their about page feature the word "today."
- herdcall 4y ago
  Well, rt.com is the first result on Brave search for the same search.
- somenameforme 4y ago
  In the meta it's listed as the author name. A good way to illustrate the consequences of "curating" searches is to search for its meta description but exclude the term RT (which presumably overrides the "curation") : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+first+Russian+24%2F7+English-language+news+channel+which+brings+the+Russian+view+on+global+news.&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+first+Russian+24%2F7+English-l... You get lots of spammy stuff (top link is a site offering to sell a translation of RT), site-ranking sites (that rank RT), some rando lady quoting RT's meta description on Twitter (!!!), and even RT's pages on Twitter, Linkedin. And then it's finally there, just before getting into really high quality results like a page on rotten tomatoes ranking the 200 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time. "Curating" results is a great way to completely break your own search engine.
  - notriddle 4y ago
    > In the meta it's listed as the author name. If I was designing a search engine, I wouldn't use keywords in meta tags for ranking. It's too vulnerable to keyword stuffing attacks.
gruez 4y ago
FWIW I tried "rt" and "russia today" and rt.com was the first hit for both.

yegg 4y ago

Not sure what is going on there (will investigate, not intentional), but try https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt&ia=web & https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+ukraine&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+ukraine&ia=web

boomboomsubban 4y ago

To be fair, they changed their name to RT over a decade ago. Neither their home page nor their about page feature the word "today."

herdcall 4y ago
Well, rt.com is the first result on Brave search for the same search.
somenameforme 4y ago
In the meta it's listed as the author name. A good way to illustrate the consequences of "curating" searches is to search for its meta description but exclude the term RT (which presumably overrides the "curation") : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+first+Russian+24%2F7+English-language+news+channel+which+brings+the+Russian+view+on+global+news.&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+first+Russian+24%2F7+English-l... You get lots of spammy stuff (top link is a site offering to sell a translation of RT), site-ranking sites (that rank RT), some rando lady quoting RT's meta description on Twitter (!!!), and even RT's pages on Twitter, Linkedin. And then it's finally there, just before getting into really high quality results like a page on rotten tomatoes ranking the 200 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time. "Curating" results is a great way to completely break your own search engine.
- notriddle 4y ago
  > In the meta it's listed as the author name. If I was designing a search engine, I wouldn't use keywords in meta tags for ranking. It's too vulnerable to keyword stuffing attacks.

gruez 4y ago

FWIW I tried "rt" and "russia today" and rt.com was the first hit for both.