#DuckDuckGone is trending on twitter after CEO tweets intentions to censor russian disinformation
https:// twitter.com /search #DuckDuckGone is trending on twitter after CEO tweets intentions to censor russian disinformation
Once again, the problem here is: disinformation according to whom? Themselves? The US government? NATO?
0ReplyMaybe propublica? I think there are areas of gray and there are areas that are clear, and we can respect the former and take action on the latter without putting on joker makeup and descending into sophomoric relativism about the fundamental impossibility of ever knowing "the truth."
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You guys are overreacting. DDG said they would only down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. It's normal for search engines to downrank low-quality sites such as SEO spam.
0ReplyWhy was the well documented Western disinformation not ranked down, or why is Fox News the second result when "ukraine" is searched?
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here's a list of public searx & SearXNG instances
If anyone has good experiences with any of them, definitely share!
0ReplySearX instances mysteriously do not have Yandex as an option, even though before this it used to be on most.
-3ReplyI looked through the git, it was removed here: https://github.com/searx/searx/pull/2566
It appears that Yandex would respond to requests with a captcha and they were unable to fix it, so they removed it.
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Yandex looks incredibly based right now, unironically. They are an insanely amazing search engine provider.
-4ReplyBased on what?
0ReplyBased on quality of search results. No US-EU search engine has that level of quality, neither on textual nor reverse image results.
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