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I think you misunderstand the purpose of a search engine. They would be borderline worthless if they did not make any attempt to sort results by relevance and q
by babypuncher 4y ago
I think you misunderstand the purpose of a search engine. They would be borderline worthless if they did not make any attempt to sort results by relevance and quality. It is why SEO is such a big industry, because everyone and their mother wants to convince Google that their website is both high quality and highly relevant for a given search term.
- someotherperson 4y agoRelevance and quality !== political pandering. This is the exact Tweet: > Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine > At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation How about Chinese disinformation? Saudi disinformation? WaPo/CNN/Fox News disinformation? How about Australian or Indonesian disinformation? This sort of selective attack is exclusively political and has nothing to do with improving a search experience. It is one thing to downrank spam, it's a whole other thing to down rank things based on the political views of the CEO.
- babypuncher 4y agoI would hope that they de-prioritize all domains known to be tied to nefarious state-sponsored misinformation. However the fact that you lump in reputable news sources like the Washington Post with Kremlin-sponsored blogspam really hurts your argument that DDG is not playing fair here.
- someotherperson 4y agoWaPo is reputable to you. Until the DDG CEO decides that it leans too left or that its headlines are too controversial, and because it isn't neutral enough it should be downranked in favor of centrist publications.