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The issue of liberal bias in search engines, even ones that advertise privacy.
1 posted on 11/21/2024 6:47:59 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

DuckDuckGo’s search results come from over 400 sources, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, and Yandex. DuckDuckGo also uses its own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, and crowdsourced sites like Wikipedia. Most are on the left


2 posted on 11/21/2024 6:50:21 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: Wallace T.

I’ve noticed that as well.....search results are almost identical to google


3 posted on 11/21/2024 6:51:52 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Wallace T.

All of the search engines are left-wing propaganda. It amazes me that there are no right-wing created search engines.


4 posted on 11/21/2024 6:52:16 AM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Wallace T.

DuckDuckGo never claimed to be right-leaning or neutral. It only claims to help block the tracking of your activity by advertisers.


5 posted on 11/21/2024 6:52:22 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Duckduckgo search Sean Duffy
8 posted on 11/21/2024 6:54:31 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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Try resultshunter.

I have had better luck with it.

https://resulthunter.com


9 posted on 11/21/2024 6:55:18 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Wallace T.

For this reason I use Brave’s search.


11 posted on 11/21/2024 6:59:58 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Add the Brave Search engine to your browser.

Search engine:
Brave

Keyword: ( note this can be any shortcut, example “:br” instead of “brave.com” )
brave.com

URL with %s in place of query:
https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s&source=desktop


14 posted on 11/21/2024 7:04:14 AM PST by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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I use Startpage for most of my searches.


15 posted on 11/21/2024 7:05:09 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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Duck Duck Go has a tracking deal with Microsoft

https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/duckduckgo-has-a-tracking-deal-with-microsoft-and-heres-why-no-one-is-happy-about-it-335450-2022-05-27


17 posted on 11/21/2024 7:06:41 AM PST by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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Yep, DDG is getting bad. And if you search videos they are ALL exclusively bias Youtube, no other video providers at all.


18 posted on 11/21/2024 7:29:27 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Wallace T.
Redstate is an obscure website naturally it wouldn't be first.

If you chance your search terms, you get the results you want.

Sean Duffy Redstate

19 posted on 11/21/2024 7:39:47 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Wallace T.

I figure—be suspicious of any company or group that spends lots of money on TV commercials.


21 posted on 11/21/2024 8:10:40 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Wallace T.

I’ve noted before the results I get from DDG are always the exact same I get from Google.


22 posted on 11/21/2024 8:41:00 AM PST by circlecity
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Duck Duck Go is just Google under the hood. If you want a search engine the Leftist blob does not control, try Yandex.

Do this experiment. Pick a topic that’s political. Do a google search and see what articles from what sources pop up. Now do the same with Yandex. Your jaw will drop when you see how much Google manipulates the results.


24 posted on 11/21/2024 8:52:39 AM PST by FLT-bird
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Use tusksearch.com or freespoke.com


25 posted on 11/21/2024 9:09:54 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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Anyone have any data on search results from the Brave search engine, or from Presearch? The latter is my preferred search engine.


26 posted on 11/21/2024 9:46:34 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Wallace T.

Been using DDG since the first day they came on the scene...

If I am going to search for anything that “could” be influenced by this kind of political-orientation crap, I have been using Right Dao for a few years and like it very much...


27 posted on 11/21/2024 11:07:11 AM PST by SuperLuminal
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I searched your phrase
Trump’s pick for Secretary of Transportation
And had no problem
https://freespoke.com/


29 posted on 11/22/2024 6:21:23 AM PST by Haddit
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I tried that same entry on StartPage and got similar results - 16 straight lefty sites, then a mixed ag of 8 more that were three sites I never heard of mixed with Lefty sites. I am appalled.


30 posted on 11/22/2024 5:46:11 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe m)
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