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The absolute flattening of the "daily searches" chart is interesting and I'm curious how it has continued. I know a handful of us immediately switched out of D
by tenpies 4y ago
The absolute flattening of the "daily searches" chart is interesting and I'm curious how it has continued.
I know a handful of us immediately switched out of DDG when they decided they were going to artificially down-rank Russian web sites from results[1], but I imagine the overlap between DDG users and people who care about this is quite small.
[1] https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/duckduckgo-russian-disinformation-downranking.html https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/duckduckgo-russian-disi...
- hedora 4y agoIt is likely due to the most recent period being a partial time span. These articles come out every few months, and the most recent period is always low. As for the Russia thing, as far as I can tell, they still show Russian propaganda sites (and often as the first result). They just don’t let SEO’ed sock puppet sites drown out all the other results. I imagine the number of people that switched away because of that is vanishingly small.