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We do index many things (see related comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360874). We do not remove a
by yegg 4y ago
We do index many things (see related comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360874). We do not remove any results ourselves for political purposes and in fact we have been banned in China for many years for that very reason. What you're referring to was a temporary bug in our image search results from Bing that they promptly fixed. If they hadn't fixed it promptly then we would have taken further action.
- barbacoa 4y agoJust now I went to RT.com and searched various article titles verbatim on DDG, they came up near the bottom half of results. I repeated this test with WSJ and found the link as the #1 result. From this it wouldn't be unreasonable to believe that either you or the sources you pull from are engaging in arbitrary website throttling/downranking. I hear you when you say you don't remove content, but do you, or to what extent do you throttle/downrank websites?
- SebaSeba 4y agoMight it have any effect on the ranking that rt.com is nowadays blocked on a national level in most parts of the western world?
- yegg 4y agoYes, that can have an effect. To the parent question, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32361888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32361888