Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
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Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#2Since ddg uses bing's api, I wonder if the disappearance on ddg is due to bing censoring.
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#3The best long term solution to overbearing copyright is to create more content with permissive licenses.
E.g. David Revoy creates art using open source software: https://www.davidrevoy.com/
Just as Microsoft and Apple would no doubt have even more locked down OSes if there wasn’t a fallback of Linux, so the more competition for people’s attention that is not controlled by large corporations, the less bargaining and coercive power they will have.
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#4I made an app that lets you compare duck-duck-go results with that of google, side by side [0][1].
One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Google is, for better or for worse, much more managed. For instance, search "are vaccines dangerous", google replies with .org and .gov sites, while ddg promotes dangersofvaccines.com. Even if you search "dangers of vaccines" in google, it still never produces that site.
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#5I made an app that lets you compare duck-duck-go results with that of google, side by side [0][1]. One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Google is, for better or for worse, much more managed. For instance, search "are vaccines dangerous", google replies with .org and .gov sites, while ddg promotes dangersofvaccines.com. Even if you search "dangers of vaccines" i…
That's a cool site, you should submit it to "Show HN" if you haven't already :)
Not sure if your site is taking the location into account, but when I do the "are vaccines dangerous" search on the search-compare website, I get .gov and .edu domains as the top 5 hits or so.
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#6I made an app that lets you compare duck-duck-go results with that of google, side by side [0][1]. One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Google is, for better or for worse, much more managed. For instance, search "are vaccines dangerous", google replies with .org and .gov sites, while ddg promotes dangersofvaccines.com. Even if you search "dangers of vaccines" i…
Speaking as somebody who goes with mainstream expert opinion by default, I nevertheless think there's enough censorship from the big tech providers, at the very least let's have such "filter out stuff that annoys us" initiatives as optional.
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#7I made an app that lets you compare duck-duck-go results with that of google, side by side [0][1]. One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Google is, for better or for worse, much more managed. For instance, search "are vaccines dangerous", google replies with .org and .gov sites, while ddg promotes dangersofvaccines.com. Even if you search "dangers of vaccines" i…
> One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation.
You should probably blame Microsoft for that. I mean DDG is just a Bing API wrapper.
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#8I made an app that lets you compare duck-duck-go results with that of google, side by side [0][1]. One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Google is, for better or for worse, much more managed. For instance, search "are vaccines dangerous", google replies with .org and .gov sites, while ddg promotes dangersofvaccines.com. Even if you search "dangers of vaccines" i…
Cool, I’ll see about doing searches with it more often to get a better read on quality differences :)
It’s interesting to me that despite the widespread complaint about the bad quality of DDG (which I, excepting long-tail results, disagree with), at least for my quick checks of "ddg" and "css center text" from your suggestions, I prefer the DDG results in both cases (especially for the css search).
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#9I made an app that lets you compare duck-duck-go results with that of google, side by side [0][1]. One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Google is, for better or for worse, much more managed. For instance, search "are vaccines dangerous", google replies with .org and .gov sites, while ddg promotes dangersofvaccines.com. Even if you search "dangers of vaccines" i…
Some people are fine with making decisions for themselves and don't need a net nanny to say "mummy thinks you shouldn't be reading this".
Re: Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
#10I made an app that lets you compare duck-duck-go results with that of google, side by side [0][1]. One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. Google is, for better or for worse, much more managed. For instance, search "are vaccines dangerous", google replies with .org and .gov sites, while ddg promotes dangersofvaccines.com. Even if you search "dangers of vaccines" i…
> One thing I found is how bad ddg is at removing conspiracy theories and other misinformation. You should probably blame Microsoft for that. I mean DDG is just a Bing API wrapper.
Yes, that’s why [0] and [1] show the same results. Only, they don’t. They are more similar than DDG vs. Google, but not the same and DDG has (for me) more relevant results closer to the top.