DuckDuckGo.com - Non-Tracking Search Engine

[ClaytonB]

[Brian4Liberty]

They have censored The Ron Paul Institute. For example, it does not come up in search results when searching for the exact title of an article. It will bring up full pages of results of various websites that have copied the article.

DuckDuckGo and Google are censoring The Ron Paul Institute.

It can still be found on Bing and Yahoo.

[Brian4Liberty]

Duck Duck Go has now become Google.

Duck Duck Go: “Now I am become Google, destroyer of free speech.”

[vita3]

“Ever feel like you’re being cheated?”

Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols

[Brian4Liberty]

From related thread:

The CEO of DuckDuckGo officially admits to censoring information:

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

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1501985147469639683

[Brian4Liberty]

https://rumble.com/vx5kff-tucker-car...with-russ.html

[DamianTV]

Censorship is keeping people from knowing that which should be known.

[Anti Globalist]

Someone tells me all these alternative search engines are going to eventually become Google.

[ClaytonB]

Someone tells me all these alternative search engines are going to eventually become Google.

[Anti Federalist]

Dirty rotten back stabbing back sliding sons of bitches.

After promoting themselves as a politically free and non invasive search engine, somebody got to them, and they have gone full woke retard.

Two identical searches for an anti climate change propaganda meme:

you are the carbon they are looking to reduce

One punched into Duck Duck Go, with all filters off, mind you, yielded this:



Screwgle, with the same exact search terms, came back with this:

[luctor-et-emergo]

I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine. But it's really poor at finding things if I'm honest.
If I really want to find something I still use google, which is actually most of the time I use a search engine.

I don't know if this is real or not but to me it seems DDG does not really search for the meaning behind what you search for but rather things that happen to have the same words you used somewhere. Whereas google seems to 'understand' what you're trying to say.

Then again, I remember a time where you could verbatim search for something on google and actually find the page that has those exact words on it. These days google also just lets you see what it wants you to see and if you use a verbatim search you may not find anything, even though you just copied the search entry from a page that definitely exists.

[DamianTV]

Report: Google Rolls Out Feature That Corrects You With Woke ‘Inclusive’ Language (by Steve Watson)
https://www.infowars.com/posts/repor...sive-language/

Google’s document editor will begin to correct the language of what people type to be more ‘inclusive’, according to a report in the Telegraph.

The article, headlined Big Brother (sorry, Big Person) is correcting you on Google, outlines how the company is to implement ‘inclusive warnings’ on Google Docs, suggesting that users refrain from using terms such as ‘policeman’ or ‘landlord’, because they are gendered.

The warnings will alert users that what they have typed “may not be inclusive to all readers,” while suggesting users should “Consider using different words,” offering woke corrections like ‘police officer’ or ‘property owner’.



The report notes, however, that even technical terms like ‘motherboard’ fall prey to Google’s woke correction.



When Googling John F. Kennedy’s inauguration speech, Google suggests that it should be corrected to ‘for all humankind’ instead of ‘for all mankind’.

Critics hit out at Google attempting to police and change language, with Silkie Carlo, the director of rights group Big Brother Watch, calling it “deeply intrusive.”

“With Google’s new assistive writing tool, the company is not only reading every word you type but telling you what to type,” she noted.

“This speech-policing is profoundly clumsy, creepy and wrong, often reinforcing bias. Invasive tech like this undermines privacy, freedom of expression and increasingly freedom of thought,” Carlo added.

Lazar Radic, a senior scholar in economic policy at the International Centre for Law and Economics, noted that “Not only is this incredibly conceited and patronising – it can also serve to stifle individuality, self-expression, experimentation, and – from a purely utilitarian perspective – progress.”

Radic explained, “What if ‘landlord’ is the better choice because it makes more sense, narratively, in a novel? What if ‘house owner’ sounds wooden and fails to invoke the same sense of poignancy? What if the defendant really was a ‘housewife’ – and refers to herself as such? Should all written pieces – including written forms of art, such as novels, lyrics, and poetry – follow the same, boring template?”

The feature on Google Docs, which could easily be shifted over to its search engine, is now on by default for what the company has termed ‘enterprise-level users’.

Google has stated that “Assisted writing uses language understanding models, which rely on millions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn how people communicate. This also means they can reflect some human cognitive biases.”

So here we have Google literally taking on the role of the Ministry of Truth from Orwell’s 1984, policing language and making sure that its Newspeak is implemented whenever necessary.

That novel was a dystopian warning, not an instructional manual.

So now the parts in your computer need to update their terms to comply with Googles Terms of Inclusive Service? A "motherboard" in a computer should now be labeled Motherboard "Birthing Person Board"?

Who the $#@! elected google to be in charge of our speech?

How bad is DDG gonna get? They have started their downhill slide.

[ClaytonB]

We're getting to the level of absurdity of schoolyard-insults at this point... "I know you are but what am I?" Two can play this stupid game...

A recent screenshot I took of a Wokified DDG search result (no safe-search):



Other links worth checking out:

https://rightdao.com/
https://brave.com/brave-search-beta/
https://presearch.org/
https://yandex.com/
https://kagi.com/
https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google
https://searx.info/

StartPage – StartPage gives you Google search results, but without the tracking (based in the Netherlands).
Searx – A privacy-friendly and versatile metasearch engine that’s also open source.
MetaGer – An open source metasearch engine with good features, based in Germany.
SwissCows – A zero-tracking private search engine based in Switzerland, hosted on secure Swiss infrastructure.
Qwant – A private search engine based in France.
Mojeek – The only true search engine (rather than metasearch engine) that has its own crawler and index (based in the UK).
YaCy – A decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer search engine.
Givero – Based in Denmark, Givero offers more privacy than Google and combines search with charitable donations.
Ecosia – Ecosia is based in Germany and donates a part of revenues to planting trees.
Gibiru - A web search out of Germany claiming privacy

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/
https://www.reddit.com/r/deapple/
https://www.reddit.com/r/deAmazon/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeFacebook/
https://www.reddit.com/r/deMicrosoft/

h/t TimelessAuthors forum thread on this subject

[DamianTV]

"The closer a civilization comes to TOTAL COLLAPSE, the more INSANE the laws become."

[sparebulb]

I've been using Yandex when I want to find Russell Bentley content.

It shows Vkontact material higher up on the search list, which is exactly where I want to go.

For what it is worth, I've tried signing up for VKontact, but they keep banning me.

They must think that I'm CIA or something.

[DamianTV]

This is disappointing.

I would be willing to pay a reasonable monthly fee for an unbiased, privacy-centric, search engine.

Trouble with this concept is that you would have to be "logged in" to use the service. And thats the trouble. They can "claim" to "respect your privacy" but if you are logged in, then you have no actual control of what they do, because logging in is HOW they link what you search for to your acct.

We need something that does not require a login to use their services, and to provide Unbiased Natural Search Results.

[Swordsmyth]

Millionshort.com is a search engine that lets you block the most popular websites from its searches.

Some interesting results trying it out with two of the people in today’s news briefs.

John Bolton

https://orinocotribune.com/the-contr...tries-to-hide/

That was on the first page of hits. Something about John Bolton’s ex and the swinger scene, who’d have thought?

Harley (not Harvey) Pasternak

You had to also click on ‘last month’ – otherwise the results were too lame; but now also on the first page of hits:

https://dailyrake.ca/2022/11/06/a-cl...nalized-again/

They note an interesting change to his Wikipedia page and that Harley …

happens to be on the advisory board of a Optimi Health Corp, a Psilocybin and Psilocin (magic mushrooms) researcher and manufacturer.

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