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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 eimrine »

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.

Banned books are too dangerous for being find publicly, and list of banned books is too useless thing. Better to create a hidden torrent tracker for things nobody else wants to host.

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

kingcharles wrote: post #16

What about archive.org? Will they delist that too? That definitely contains a lot of copyright-infringing data. Where will this end? Pirate Bay actually contains a lot of non-infringing items too. Who watches the watchers?

> Pirate Bay actually contains a lot of non-infringing items too.

Wait, what have they got? Actual Linux ISOs?

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

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Post by thematrixturtle »

I suspect this is largely due to DDG using Bing under the hood, which has led to similar weirdness in the past, eg all major porn sites disappearing from the results in Singapore (while Google still showed them, mind you!).

Still super disappointing though, and yet another reason why trying to build a better search engine on top of someone else's tech is a non-starter.

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Post by babypuncher »

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.

I appreciate the sentiment but such an index would be 99.9% spam, malware, and phishing.

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

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Post by daxuak »

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.

What if I want to search what sites have mentioned those urls?

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

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Post by drexlspivey »

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…

> Who really needs a search engine nowadays?

Apparently a lot of people since google processes 6B searches every day?

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