“Tank Man” • Hacker News Board

Re: “Tank Man”

#31

Post by hmd_imputer » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

Fake privacy

Re: “Tank Man”

#32

Post by lepasana » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:42 PM UTC

Infernal wrote: post #10

Interestingly, when I follow that link I first get "Images blocked by safe search", but when I turn off safe search, I then get "no results".

Same here

Re: “Tank Man”

#33

Post by underseacables » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:42 PM UTC

I got the same result as everyone else, safe search, no images, but then when I went back it had all of the articles. Something weird is happening

Re: “Tank Man”

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Post by Hnrobert42 » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:43 PM UTC

dtx1 wrote: post #16

I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords

I hate to see this downvoted. For those who don’t get the reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-ins...

Re: “Tank Man”

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Post by bmitc » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

This is probably related to Bing not showing results because, as far as I know, DuckDuckGo uses Bing as its underlying search engine. I’ve always chuckled at this from the Apple and Linux users railing against Microsoft but then they use DuckDuckGo.

Interestingly, Bing shows plenty of relevant search results for their web results, including images, but doesn’t show results for an image search.

Re: “Tank Man”

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Post by ww520 » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

bitcurious wrote: post #25

Camillo wrote: post #22

For comparison: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22tank+man%22&tbm=isch

Speaking as someone who's used ddg for the last three years, this is a compelling reason to switch back to google.

Definitely agree. I'll switch back as well.

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Post by Panino » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

I've been using DDG as the default search for years and this is the first time I've been disappointed in them. DDG: don't let disappointment gain momentum because it's hard to stop.

Re: “Tank Man”

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Post by incomplete » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:45 PM UTC

csunbird wrote: post #30

incomplete wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's odd -- i also turned off safe search, and got decent links to wikipedia and a bunch of news articles...

The image search is broken.

derp, i see that now...

Re: “Tank Man”

#39

Post by josefresco » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:46 PM UTC

Same result at Yahoo! - no images.

Re: “Tank Man”

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Post by luke2m » Fri, Jun 04, 2021, 7:46 PM UTC

ww520 wrote: post #26

WTF. Is DDG helping China in censorship?

No, Bing is.