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DuckDuckGo CEO: "we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation."
DDG ^

Posted on 03/10/2022 10:46:11 AM PST by janetjanet998

Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️

At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.

In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: theapprovednarrative
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To: janetjanet998

Looks like DDG just lost their reason to exist. No different than Google now.


41 posted on 03/10/2022 11:11:48 AM PST by Revel
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To: mylife

Why not just partition ALL of the search engines into Column A (left), Column B, (Deep State), Column C, Conservative, Column D (Trump haters), Column E (Trump Lovers), F (Pro Russia), G (Pro Ukraine), H (Globalists), etc. And don’t leave anything out. No Truth category, though, because only NARRATIVE exists, never truth.


42 posted on 03/10/2022 11:11:52 AM PST by silent majority rising ( )
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To: montag813

Putin pays me with Ukrainian women.


43 posted on 03/10/2022 11:12:20 AM PST by EEGator
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To: janetjanet998

DuckDuckGONE

Use giburu


44 posted on 03/10/2022 11:13:35 AM PST by Westbrook
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To: Westbrook

Use gibiru instead.

https://gibiru.com/


45 posted on 03/10/2022 11:14:19 AM PST by Westbrook
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To: janetjanet998

I barely knew you DuckDuckGo....


46 posted on 03/10/2022 11:15:15 AM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: gattaca

The Brave browser is awesome. Been using it for years.


47 posted on 03/10/2022 11:17:39 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: Wallace T.

mojeek.com (?)


48 posted on 03/10/2022 11:23:52 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: janetjanet998

This is extremely disappointing. The whole reason for the existence of DDG is because of google censorship.

This announcement makes it clear that other alternatives will have to be looked at.


49 posted on 03/10/2022 11:24:53 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: janetjanet998

Thanks for posting this,

Goodbye to DuckDuckGo as they are apparently the opposite of what they say


50 posted on 03/10/2022 11:25:52 AM PST by Libertygirlnow
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To: Wallace T.

I use StartPage, GigaBlast, Yandex, then DuckDuckGo. There might be a net neutral bias if you average between them.


51 posted on 03/10/2022 11:27:48 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: janetjanet998
Can the owners of 'DuckDuckGo' prove they themselves are not misinformation?

Time to fire up the Brave search engine.

52 posted on 03/10/2022 11:29:04 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: janetjanet998

It is the user’s responsibility to filter, not a company’s.

Did DDG learn nothing?


53 posted on 03/10/2022 11:29:18 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (None )
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To: janetjanet998

It is the user’s responsibility to filter, not a company’s.

Did DDG learn nothing?


54 posted on 03/10/2022 11:29:26 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (None )
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To: janetjanet998

just switched homepage to Brave


55 posted on 03/10/2022 11:31:09 AM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: janetjanet998

It’s ok, we don’t have to use it then.


56 posted on 03/10/2022 11:32:58 AM PST by Trillian
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To: janetjanet998

That does it. I will remove DDG. I don’t need a policeman to mess with my searches.

Virtue signalling nonsense to be one of the cool kids,


57 posted on 03/10/2022 11:34:31 AM PST by dforest
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To: janetjanet998

I noticed their searches are lining up with Google


58 posted on 03/10/2022 11:35:31 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Wallace T.

I just dowloaded the Brave browser and they have a search engine.


59 posted on 03/10/2022 11:36:00 AM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: janetjanet998

Not
Good

Crap. Loved them. Need to find another. And I’ve been a ddg cheerleader here.

Once uou implement censorship algorithms, you’ve gone to the dark side. Only a matter of time.

And I’ve found the Russians to be more trustworthy than the US State Department. By far.


60 posted on 03/10/2022 11:38:03 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally. The war is on Biden and Obama.)
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