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Much of the "antivax garbage" turned out to be true. In hindsight, do you still believe that censoring true but inconvenient information is morally acceptable?
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates
Please change the search results so that when I search "X + reddit" all of the search results are reddit, not just the first two.
Actually, now that you mention it, maybe that's my problem with SO searches I called out in another post. Maybe they've got some kind of same-source limit that becomes a major hindrance when you expect most results to be from a single source. I almost never get more than two SO links for a search on DDG, and very often neither is what I need—Google gives me a bunch more, and usually at least one is helpful. And it hadn't occurred to me, but I often end up tossing in a "!g" to reddit searches for a similar reason: not enough results are from Reddit, on DDG. (yes, I could probably do some kind of "site:reddit.com" or something, but "!g" is faster to type and gets the job done)
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Since when? It may not be a good argument but should we be deplatforming people over it? Go to Reddit front page right now and try to find something that isn’t a poorly argued political post. What’s the difference? Just because you may disagree with someone it doesn’t mean they NEED to be silenced.
Politics is about how you think things should be run. Science is about what we have evidence for. They are not the same thing.
Science is about coming up with a hypnosis or theory and testing it.
The evidence comes at the end not before the theory
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates
Please change the search results so that when I search "X + reddit" all of the search results are reddit, not just the first two.
Have you been using the new button we put there to do that? (I realize you still have to press the button, but curious if you are liking it.)
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They could simply add a “propaganda” tag and give an option to filter out the search results marked with that tag. If anything I can specifically search for Russian propaganda, for whatever reason.
Yes, you can, and downranking propaganda wouldn't stop it from turning up if you go looking. But when my naive sister-in-law hears something about how Ukraine isn't a real country, I don't want the first page of results for "history of Ukraine" to turn up Russian propaganda. I live in a red state, and there are astonishing numbers of people here who already buy Putin's story. I'm fully behind DDG deciding they didn't…
> wouldn't stop it from turning up if you go looking.
Yeah, same goes for your naïve sister-in-law. So why don’t they add the “propaganda” tag, so that your relatives could clearly see it and I could search for it (for whatever reason)? They could even add some links to some better sources, as an option. And use some disclaimer when you click on these results, like “Hey, this is a propaganda resource, be careful. Here’s the links where you can read up on the topic if you need unbiased information”. That would probably have at least some educational value, unlike removing and/or downranking the results.
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How is your attitude not equivalent to "I can't trust myself to see things I disagree with, I am so weak-willed that there is the horrific danger that I will start believing them"? There are reasons someone might want to find those links, even if they disagree with them. When Google hides them from you without your consent or ability to opt out, they're treating you as if you were a child. Or perhaps more like livest…
> I am so weak-willed that there is the horrific danger that I will start believing them That's what "Manufacturing Consent" isn't it? That entire concept seems sound and passes the smell test. People see things repeatedly from authoritive-sounding people and they believe it (in the case of the book, by governments and their catspaws). There is no reason a search and social bubble wouldn't wind up with a similar outc…
Is my authority defiance resource just cranked up to 11? I don't even like those groups I tend to agree with, and when I do find myself agreeing with them I silently sit there wondering if that somehow means I am wrong.
I only said it sarcastically about the original commenter because it's difficult to believe that anyone could truly be like that. Sure, we're all aware of the dregs who seem to form their political beliefs from Uncle Creepy's Facebook meme pictures, but I've always believed those people to be nothing more than a (sizable) minority.
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#147I love DDG and use it daily on all my devices, but I would take such marketing statement with some scepticism:
Previously, DDG used to have a page [0] with usage stats, but it was deactivated somewhere around this time last year. Instead of a very clear data that was clearly showing the state of things (which had a rather concerning slowing of growth), we now have vague statents about #2 position in mobile market in the US.
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No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updates posted quarterly at https://duckduckgo.com/updates
Please change the search results so that when I search "X + reddit" all of the search results are reddit, not just the first two.
I personally just use "X site:reddit.com". It's more verbose, but it does what you want.
EDIT: There's also a !bang that does the same thing: !ddgr
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#149I use ddg solely to have bang search like in chrome without using chrome
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It was crazy to see suggestions to wear masks or claims that covid was airborne getting "fact-checked" by the media only to reverse their position months later after WHO put out new statements. In particular, the phrase "no credible evidence" was wildly thrown around without mentioning whether there were any credible high-powered studies that had even attempted to find evidence of the phenomenon.
With hindsight we can see their mistakes but isn't following the expert line the best thing to do in an uncertain situation?
Many of these things were obvious at the time if you were paying attention.