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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
#432DDG sucks in many ways. Besides the engine performing quite poorly, it also relies on third parties and so will return filtered results they may not even control. They also never supported IPv6 and are hosted at Microsoft or Amazon. IMO, there is no credible search engine today.
> are hosted at Microsoft or Amazon I agree with most of what you are saying but this is silly. I get "Microsoft and Amazon bad" but basically saying "host your own infrastructure worldwide and index your own corpus or you are a bad actor is rather inane.
They may not host their own infrastructure, even though I think something like DDG should. But they can choose a better network, better technically and ethically.
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#433Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
#434Earlier quoted context omitted.
DuckDuckGo is not solely dependent on Bing. They use Bing as one sourc of the, but they've run their own crawlers since at least 2012.
Not for actual search IIRC. Last time I checked, they only used their own index and crawlers for the "smart search" and instant answers. Almost all of their search results are still sourced from Bing. That's pretty easy to check for yourself, usually whenever something does not show up on Bing it won't on DDG either. A good example of that was when the "tank man" picture disappeared from Bing and the exact same thing…
Yandex was also previously used for search, largely of Russian sites.
That relationship has reportedly been "paused":
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/duckduckgo-yandex-ukraine
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#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am the only one who may say that.
No-one wants to see 99.99999% of the spam sites that gets purged in Google's filter. Look at all the complaints of the 0.00001% that gets through.
I want whatever I say I want.
There is no reason for legitimate filtering not to be voluntary, like the default porn filter that you have the option to disable.
I still have access to my spam folder, and unsolicited communication is not the same as search results. If I search for something, then I searched for it. I am THE ONLY person who may judge the value of the results.
The search engine's job is only to tell me what's there, not to tell me what I want.
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#436Earlier quoted context omitted.
No-one wants to see 99.99999% of the spam sites that gets purged in Google's filter. Look at all the complaints of the 0.00001% that gets through.
I want whatever I say I want. There is no reason for legitimate filtering not to be voluntary, like the default porn filter that you have the option to disable. I still have access to my spam folder, and unsolicited communication is not the same as search results. If I search for something, then I searched for it. I am THE ONLY person who may judge the value of the results. The search engine's job is only to tell me…
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#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
No-one wants to see 99.99999% of the spam sites that gets purged in Google's filter. Look at all the complaints of the 0.00001% that gets through.
I want whatever I say I want. There is no reason for legitimate filtering not to be voluntary, like the default porn filter that you have the option to disable. I still have access to my spam folder, and unsolicited communication is not the same as search results. If I search for something, then I searched for it. I am THE ONLY person who may judge the value of the results. The search engine's job is only to tell me…
Most spam emails do not even reach your spam folder. You wouldn't want to see those purged emails either.
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#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's out-of-order on two counts. I see there are plenty of others in the same boat. Our thus far smaller but 5+ billion index has you covered: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=site%3Awww.espositosoftware....
Thanks, but that is not my site. Mine is darekkay.com and it isn't indexed by mojeek.
OK, thanks. Why did you think that? Looks like, at least some, is indexed: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=darekkay+site%3Adarekkay.com
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want whatever I say I want. There is no reason for legitimate filtering not to be voluntary, like the default porn filter that you have the option to disable. I still have access to my spam folder, and unsolicited communication is not the same as search results. If I search for something, then I searched for it. I am THE ONLY person who may judge the value of the results. The search engine's job is only to tell me…
Most spam emails do not even reach your spam folder. You wouldn't want to see those purged emails either.
You can't say that for anyone else. No one can say that for anyone else.
And, repeating, unsolicited communication is different from search results.
But in fact yes I do wish I could trust that my spam folder was actually complete. I find false positives in there all the time. But my point was that even if it's incomplete, you still have a spam folder that you can choose whether to look at or not. The fact that some stuff is filtered by other parties before reaching my client or server is irrelevant.