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How did DDG reveal its focus on politics? Are you referring to them dropping Yandex? Unfortunately there’s no good options in that situation because however goo

How did DDG reveal its focus on politics? Are you referring to them dropping Yandex? Unfortunately there’s no good options in that situation because however good Yandex is, it basically gives the Russian government free reign to inject propaganda into search results, which is basically the opposite of being apolitical.

theandrewbailey 4y ago
For me, it was the founder announcing that they were going to de-rank "sites associated with russian disinformation". https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318 https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318 https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-associated-with-russian-disinformation https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-ass...
lostlogin 4y ago
The weird situation they got themselves into with Tank Man was revealing. https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bing-tiananmen-tank-man-results https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...
- i67vw3 4y ago
  AMP link..... Non Amp link-https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bing-tiananmen-tank-man-results https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    Argh. Thank you.
- ziddoap 4y ago
  Is there more to this story than in the article? Because I don't see anything "revealing" about that situation, other than that DDG suffered from Bings error, as they use Bing's results. What did this incident reveal specifically about DDG?
  - hunterb123 4y ago
    I'd say it's revealing how closely they are tied to the censorship that Microsoft employs. Might have been obvious to those who knew where they got their index from, but it was certainly highlighted by that event.
blub 4y ago
It probably refers to DDG down-ranking so-called Russian disinformation. Which sounds like a brilliant idea until one remembers the clusterfuck of censoring pandemic-related disinformation which transformed into a witch hunt of everything which didn’t match the mainstream political opinion.

theandrewbailey 4y ago

For me, it was the founder announcing that they were going to de-rank "sites associated with russian disinformation". https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318 https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318 https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-associated-with-russian-disinformation https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-ass...

lostlogin 4y ago

The weird situation they got themselves into with Tank Man was revealing. https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bing-tiananmen-tank-man-results https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...

i67vw3 4y ago
AMP link..... Non Amp link-https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bing-tiananmen-tank-man-results https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...
- lostlogin 4y ago
  Argh. Thank you.
ziddoap 4y ago
Is there more to this story than in the article? Because I don't see anything "revealing" about that situation, other than that DDG suffered from Bings error, as they use Bing's results. What did this incident reveal specifically about DDG?
- hunterb123 4y ago
  I'd say it's revealing how closely they are tied to the censorship that Microsoft employs. Might have been obvious to those who knew where they got their index from, but it was certainly highlighted by that event.

blub 4y ago

It probably refers to DDG down-ranking so-called Russian disinformation. Which sounds like a brilliant idea until one remembers the clusterfuck of censoring pandemic-related disinformation which transformed into a witch hunt of everything which didn’t match the mainstream political opinion.