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by yegg 3y ago
Thanks! It was a regex error.
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by yegg 3y ago
Hi all (CEO & Founder, DuckDuckGo here). Looks like something may have broken in a release that went out today -- it is triggering a JS error. We're looking into it now and should have it resolved soon. UPDATE: this should be fixed
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by yegg 3y ago
We have not censored anything -- see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898661 (and others on this thread).
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by yegg 3y ago
Yes, that's right -- we do!
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by yegg 3y ago
From lots of experience, I can tell you if you don't have these things (and others, this is an incomplete list just off the top of my head) showing up in the right places (often above "traditional web links") at the right tim
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by yegg 3y ago
It is simply not true that we have intentionally censored anything for political reasons or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth" in general, which people have also accused us/me of doing. I realized I previously explained h
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by yegg 3y ago
I don't believe I have ever made that claim and it isn't true either that we are "little more than a Bing mirror". See other comment on this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898807 ) but in
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by yegg 3y ago
None of that is contradictory. To paraphrase: - We have on the order of a million lines of search code at this point and have a lot of talented people working them. That code does a myriad of things across many indexes. - As an example, mob
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by yegg 3y ago
Any particular examples you can remember that I can look into personally (and bring back to the team to look at as well)?
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by yegg 3y ago
Do you know what they are? Happy to investigate along with TechDirt and that might help.
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by yegg 3y ago
(DuckDuckGo CEO/Founder) Just seeing this and we're looking into this now. This is not intentional. Update: Still investigating, but have made some progress -- Determined that on desktop there was a link to Techdirt up continuousl
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by yegg 3y ago
We do pay people at every stage regardless of outcome and so not sure what happened. If you email me I’ll figure it out though.
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by yegg 3y ago
> Let's say the real purpose was always to reduce "news spam", and Russia increased their news spam when invading Ukraine. Yes, that is correct. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36145183 There is a
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by yegg 3y ago
Yes, it was.
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by yegg 3y ago
We actually always had a bunch of our own stuff, and still do, as well as work with other partners. For example, the number one module on mobile is local, and we don't get any local stuff from Bing at all. Similarly, the number one mod
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by yegg 3y ago
That doesn't seem fair at all. Our privacy protections have only gotten stronger as we've protected you more and more beyond search.
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by yegg 3y ago
On this last point, a search engine has to provide local results to be useful, e.g., local weather, restaurants, etc. We do that always in anonymous fashion, as explained here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pag
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by yegg 3y ago
That page is being transparent about how exactly it works, which is why I wrote it. I'm sorry you don't like the words I chose, but they were not chosen to "weasel" out of anything, but to be accurate, which is why I kee
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by yegg 3y ago
It is about spam. There are actually many flavors of spam and they each need their own spam detector. For example parked domain spam vs. adult content spam vs. copycat site spam vs. content-farm spam vs. news spam. This is about news spam.
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by yegg 3y ago
First off, 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
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by yegg 3y ago
I never said they are synonyms. What I am saying is we are acting on spam and not misinformation. We do not have a misinformation/disinformation/truth/lie detector or whatever you want to call it. We do not evaluate individua
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by yegg 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143328 . To be clear, we do not censor. Per the help article referenced above ( https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne... ): "we
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by yegg 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143328 . I had poor word choice that got grossly misinterpreted, so I subsequently wrote the help article referenced above ( https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-he
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by yegg 3y ago
(Hi, I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.) It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitte
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by yegg 3y ago
We didn't nuke them, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35691426 (from that thread).
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by yegg 3y ago
Yes, I'll look into it.
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by yegg 3y ago
Sorry to hear that. Our process is to follow-up with everyone, so I'm not sure what happened. If you want to DM me on Twitter I can look into it.
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by yegg 3y ago
Sorry, looks like this new feature is being re-tooled today, but should be up again within a few days!
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by yegg 3y ago
Have you been using the new button we put there to do that? (I realize you still have to press the button, but curious if you are liking it.)
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by yegg 3y ago
Yes, he is the best person to discuss such requests.

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