DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”
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Re: DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”
#2Can we hope this will lead to some transparency about what sites are donwranked; how they are misinformation or otherwise worth the downranking; and maybe even some insight into what facilities there are for weighting the rankings and how those are otherwise used?
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#3I like DDG, but honestly, this is a really bad move. It is already harder for me to find certain sites in the rankings. I mean look at this, even searching for "drudge" doesn't even bring up a link to Drudge Report: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=drudge&t=h_&ia=web
I liked DDG because it respected the user. Limiting what I can see in order to make sure I don't see "Russian disinformation" seems to me like the exact opposite of respecting the user. Will be uninstalling soon if this intensifies.
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#4Like Signal, I approve of DuckDuckGo generally, and sometimes they make bad moves.
This is one of them.
Censoring the baddies may seem obvious, but once you open this can of worms, there's no closing it.
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#5My question is: DDG is to Google, as ___ is to DDG. What is ___?
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Re: DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”
#8Can we hope this will lead to some transparency about what sites are donwranked; how they are misinformation or otherwise worth the downranking; and maybe even some insight into what facilities there are for weighting the rankings and how those are otherwise used?
Yeah... it's probably better to show a link saying "we downranked [...], click here to uncensor".
I think in this particular case it's a good thing as is, but next time I might not think that, and I'd rather have the "full shebang" available too.
Though, from a philosophical point of view, search engines are supposed to find us "good" content. They try to guess our intentions and serve up the stuff we should see. In this is a massive implication that search engines already make a lot of judgment calls; just usually along less identifiable features. Here they're explicitly crafting a feature called "disinformation" and downgrading on that basis. But otherwise, is it so different to rating based on other arbitrary criteria that we don't even have any insight into?
Re: DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”
#9My question is: DDG is to Google, as ___ is to DDG. What is ___?
Google.
Re: DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”
#10Goodbye, DDG.