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DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by mdaniel »

nmilo wrote: post #8

Youtube-dl's site is yt-dl.org, not youtube-dl.org. Not surprised the second one doesn't show up. Not sure why this blogspam is here on HN either.

They are both bing suppressed, and as best I can tell are synonymous

    $ dig +short youtube-dl.org.
    95.143.172.170
    $ dig +short yt-dl.org.
    95.143.172.170
as for the blogspam, I'm sure everyone loves a good free speech suppression story, but yeah, I wish HN offered downvotes on submissions, too

Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by miloignis »

muhammadusman wrote: post #4
mdaniel wrote: post #2

As for the YouTube-DL part specifically, I'm pretty sure that's a side-effect of them being dependent upon Bing for the actual index: https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Ayoutube-dl.org Also, _come on_; if someone gives up after one search term, which also includes advanced site-restricting syntax, there's no way they'd be able to operate youtube-dl anyway: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl&ia=web

Yeah idk why someone would type in the full URL of a site and not just the term they're looking for in a search engine...what a dumb way to test that on their part.

The point isn't that you can't reach the website by typing in the search term, the point is that they've deindexed the site. If you search for youtube-dl, neither youtube-dl.org nor yt-dl.org come up in the results, as far as I can see.

You can still access it from the results via other sites, like github and wikipedia (which even makes the real website pop up in the info square, funnily enough), but the search results themselves do not contain any links to the main website.

Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by eimrine »

Who really needs a search engine nowadays? The google or ddg or whatever is just a search aggregator for making no need to open Wikipedia for searching who is Franko then open weather.com for figuring out the weather next weekend then open SO for quitting vim and so on. I can not remember when I really searched something general last time which is impossible to find via single-site search. And of course free porn videos and other pirated stuff and cool-hacker-utils is never been searched using government-friendly search businesses.

Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by bufferoverflow »

Apreche wrote: post #13

Someone should make a search engine that only indexes sites that Google and DuckDuckgo do not index. It would serve sort of the same purpose as like, lists of banned books.

It will be a lot of spam with a bit of useful sites sprinkled randomly.

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Post by jfengel »

Apreche wrote: post #13

Someone should make a search engine that only indexes sites that Google and DuckDuckgo do not index. It would serve sort of the same purpose as like, lists of banned books.

You want a list of spam sites, phishing, malware, and SEO-driven gibberish with back-links?

Yeah, I guess that would probably be useful for something. Academic research into just how awful people are, perhaps. And, of course, as a blackhole list.

Just make sure you get a bulk discount on disk space. Such a list would be huge.

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Post by jjulius »

eimrine wrote: post #15

Who really needs a search engine nowadays? The google or ddg or whatever is just a search aggregator for making no need to open Wikipedia for searching who is Franko then open weather.com for figuring out the weather next weekend then open SO for quitting vim and so on. I can not remember when I really searched something general last time which is impossible to find via single-site search. And of course free porn vid…

It's cool that you've had enough experience to just know where everything that you need is. Not everybody has the same experience with finding things on the internet as you, nor is the average internet user anywhere near as technically-minded as you.
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