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

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post #18

Bing, not logged in, gave me the Wikipedia entry and an article about the photographer, 30 years later.

It does for web results, click on "images" and it shows nothing.

Try image search for

tank man tiananmen square

"Tank man" alone is not specific enough for image search. It's probably found in main search only because Wikipedia uses that phrase.

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

#72
post #60

I have no idea how to get Dang's attention, but can we talk about why this thread is flagged? How is this not blatant censorship? Tons of people are NOT seeing this thread, it was on the front page before it got flagged, obviously the intention of whoever flagged it.

Hopefully Dang can sticky this for a bit to make up for the lost time.

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

#73
post #12

I get the image if I'm more specific on DDG, via "tank man tiananmen square". Maybe just DDG needing more context than Google?

I searched for “fnord cakewalk” and got a pageful of results. It’s impossible that 2 generic words like “tank” and “man” give 0 results whatsoever for organic reasons.

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

#74
There is an inevitability of multinationals in bowing to censorship. Many see cracking the Chinese market as the white whale. Censorship costs a drop in the bucket compared to the profits that can be made, they’ll fight tooth and nail on taxes and general business regulation but won’t give a damn for censorship.

Quite frankly I doubt even western outrage would matter, in 5 minutes everyone has already moved onto the next story.

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

#75
post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does for web results, click on "images" and it shows nothing.

Try image search for tank man tiananmen square "Tank man" alone is not specific enough for image search. It's probably found in main search only because Wikipedia uses that phrase.

Right, but it show no results at all. It is clearly not an algorithmic choice, someone has manually made the query return nothing. When I search other variations it simply gives me completely irrelevant images, such as images from the square in modern times.

I am an unabashed Microsoft fan, but this is abhorrent. I really hope they put out a statement and correct this. To me it would be like searching for "holocaust" or "Emmett Till" and getting no results.

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

#76
post #12

I get the image if I'm more specific on DDG, via "tank man tiananmen square". Maybe just DDG needing more context than Google?

I get the image, but I have to scroll some, and click on "Show more" even though there is only one row of results at a time...

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

#78
Anyone know how to raise awareness for this issue? I’ve shared this friends/family but would be great to get the press/talking heads on this. Maybe the majority of Americans don’t care and this isn’t something that would gain traction but I sure do care a lot.

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

#80
post #57

This shouldn't have been flagged. My understanding is that posts which comment on current events from a tech perspective are 100% within the bounds of acceptable behavior here.

Very suspicious. I suspect employees are flagging this post, but my suspicions aren’t really founded. Is there a way to unflag?

Normally @dang turns up to clarify and fix things

Posts are flagged if a certain number of users flag them, not just mods/admins.

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