Posted on 09/14/2022 5:29:30 AM PDT by mikelets456
Yesterday I was trying to search information regarding Covid, vaccines and efficacy and everything was from Jan 2021-June 2021 and from CNN, CDC, leftists sites.
Also, everything that came up was the complete opposite of what I searched. Maybe it's just me but I use to be able to search all this stuff with no problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at duckduckgo.com ...
Too bad. All good things must come to an end, I suppose. You have to wonder if this was precipitated by a “friendly” visit from some authorities.
I use Startpage as well. I ditched DDG months ago when their leftist turn was exposed.
Somewhere on my computer are a series of screen shots I took of search engine results for the phrase “Hillary Clinton is” taken sometime prior to the 2016 election.
If EVER you wanted to prove to yourself once and for all how lock-step those search engine algorithms are, I’ll leave the results of the exercise to the student.
Thanks for sharing this. Just dumped DDG and now use StartPage.
The regime got to them.
Of a similar vein....when you search for ‘Laptop From Hell” book on Amazon the 1st result is the Jan 6th Report, not the actual book you want to read.
Dem ol’ north Louisiana boys still around? I guess cajun
country is still doing fine.
Was waiting for this, ever since they started advertising on National Public Radio.
It’s NOT just a problem with COVID research.
It’s. now immediately defaulting to google type leftist sites on all things politics - literally !
Almost no difference at all now.
Obviously something is badly amiss in ducky land.
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a while back I thought a read that google reached an agreement with DDG to operate their search engine
iow this is no accident
seems like DDG sold out?
+++I read some time ago that DDG went to the dark side. Someone I trust uses Brave.++++
Regarding “Russia” they did but I kept using them and they were still good with other political stuff. Now everything comes up the opposite that I am searching and ends up at the CDC, CNN, Vox and Axios. That never happened before Monday....
Duck Duck Go Gone Woke. This happened long ago.
“For many years, we’ve been promoting DuckDuckGo as an alternative search engine to Google. Unlike Google and Bing which track users, DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers’ privacy.
However, after many years of standing up for privacy and free speech, DuckDuckGo finally capitulates to the “woke” culture under the disguise of censoring Russian misinformation content. DuckDuckGo has now become DuckDuckGone after it embraces the woke culture and joins the big tech to censor search content.
It all started on Wednesday when the company announced that it has “been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation,” making DuckDuckGo the arbiter of the truth. In a post on Twitter, DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg said:
“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.”
search.brave.com is far better than evil Google or DuckSuckGo as it changed to be more like Goo a few months back.
They turned left 2 or 3 years ago. I started using Tor Search and select Standard Web instead of Dark Web. It’s a little slower but at least ya get more info...
They must have taken the blue pill, a'...
On second thought: It’s just you. I was blown away at how awesome the difference was. I tested to see how bad this was, so I typed, “Fauci criminal” in Google and DDG.
Google served me: “Almost Everything Tucker Carlson said About Fauci This Week Was False or Misleading,” “Man Facing Charges for Allegedly Sending Threatening E-mails to Dr. Anthony Fauci...,” and then poll results from Quinnipiac pushing for prosecution of Trump, with no mention at all of Fauci on the landing page.
DDG served me: “Dr. Fauci’s Long Criminal History,” “Tucker Carlson: Is Dr. Fauci under criminal investigation?” and “Anthony Fauci is a lying criminal.”
Yes...I stopped using them several years ago.
odd note about startpage...
A few years ago, a fren mentioned that site was blocked on his fed workstation. Not certain if this is still blocked, as he retired, but I wonder why it was blocked. Maybe because it doesn’t use tracking cookies?
I did that in “Brave” and got all the reports against Fauci. Including Tucker..
I’m going to stick with Brave for now. Goodbye DDG.
What do you use now?
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