Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo

Post by jagger27 » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

Post by jjulius » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

Multicomp wrote: post #8

I confirm the symptoms happened for me as well. I used the !s bang to have startpage search it and startpage returned the image in the carousel and image results. I'm not certain I can continue to use duck duck go if it is going to give me results subjected to CCP censorship. I switched to it from Startpage as it had a less shady reputation than the latter, but Startpage hasn't messed with my actual searches like DDG…

Post by astrea » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 4:14 PM UTC

jjulius wrote: post #13

Multicomp wrote: post #8

I confirm the symptoms happened for me as well. I used the !s bang to have startpage search it and startpage returned the image in the carousel and image results. I'm not certain I can continue to use duck duck go if it is going to give me results subjected to CCP censorship. I switched to it from Startpage as it had a less shady reputation than the latter, but Startpage hasn't messed with my actual searches like DDG…

Doesn't DDG use Bing on the backend (at least to some extent? Forgive my ignorance here). My hunch is that it has more to do with that, as opposed to it being a conscious decision by people at DDG.

Post by Multicomp » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

jjulius wrote: post #13

Multicomp wrote: post #8

I confirm the symptoms happened for me as well. I used the !s bang to have startpage search it and startpage returned the image in the carousel and image results. I'm not certain I can continue to use duck duck go if it is going to give me results subjected to CCP censorship. I switched to it from Startpage as it had a less shady reputation than the latter, but Startpage hasn't messed with my actual searches like DDG…

Doesn't DDG use Bing on the backend (at least to some extent? Forgive my ignorance here). My hunch is that it has more to do with that, as opposed to it being a conscious decision by people at DDG.

Post by jjulius » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

Multicomp wrote: post #17

jjulius wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't DDG use Bing on the backend (at least to some extent? Forgive my ignorance here). My hunch is that it has more to do with that, as opposed to it being a conscious decision by people at DDG.

Agreed. But if Bing is going to pull stuff like this, and DDG just wraps Bing results, it can leave users with questions about what else may be being censored, directly or not.