This confirms that, although not obvious when searching, Duck Duck Go is displaying image results from Bing.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&atb=v228-1&iar=images&iax...
There are no results for tank man
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, we'd only mark a story a [dupe] if it got significant attention in a different thread. I haven't heard back yet, but the most likely explanation is that a moderator (correctly) thought that one Tank Man story on the HN front page was enough. Edit: oh - I think that one was actually marked a [dupe] by software. I'd need to double check this, but if so, it's because it interpreted the link to the other thread as a…
So if someone wants to bury a story, now they know how to do it.
That's not quite accurate, but even if it were, there are easy ways to improve that bit of software if people start abusing it.
You're right that most such software tricks, especially anti-abuse measures, need to be secret in order to stay working.
Re: There are no results for tank man
#213https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1400906032176640004
A Microsoft spokesperson tells me that "accidental human error" is to blame for missing images of "tank man" on its Bing search results.
"We are actively working to resolve this."
The incident comes on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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#214this thread had given bling my first click
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#215But there are results for "tank man" tienanmen:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%2b%22tank+man%22+tiena...
Re: There are no results for tank man
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just speculation: maybe a dupe of a dead topic.
No, we'd only mark a story a [dupe] if it got significant attention in a different thread. I haven't heard back yet, but the most likely explanation is that a moderator (correctly) thought that one Tank Man story on the HN front page was enough. Edit: oh - I think that one was actually marked a [dupe] by software. I'd need to double check this, but if so, it's because it interpreted the link to the other thread as a…
Aha, there really WAS something funny going on.
Of course, do not attribute to conspiracy that which can be attributed to a bug! ;-)
Re: There are no results for tank man
#217I don't speak chinese, but "50 cent party" refers to paid online chinese trolls. I think it is written as 50美分派对 [1] 50美分派对 also finds no results on Bing, but plenty of results on Google. So it's not just tank man. The word filter is active for all search terms that are blocked in china. 50美分的军队 I think is another way of writing it: it shows only 3 images on bing, which all look like ads for Coca Cola. [1] https://en…
五毛 or 5毛 - 5 _mao_ is half a yuan, so the equivalent of 50¢. “Fifty cent” is an Americanized translation.
Edit: the wiki page you linked has it in simplified and traditional characters.
Re: There are no results for tank man
#218Hmmm, DuckDuckGo image search shows some people standing next to tanks but not the tank man photo. I guess it makes sense since DDG uses bing for their search tech but it's pretty disappointing that you can get uncensored searches or privacy but not both.
If you search for tank man on DDG, the very first result is the Wikipedia article about said individual and the Tiananmen Square massacre. If they were intentionally trying to censor the search results, why would they only censor images?
Re: There are no results for tank man
#219I don't speak chinese, but "50 cent party" refers to paid online chinese trolls. I think it is written as 50美分派对 [1] 50美分派对 also finds no results on Bing, but plenty of results on Google. So it's not just tank man. The word filter is active for all search terms that are blocked in china. 50美分的军队 I think is another way of writing it: it shows only 3 images on bing, which all look like ads for Coca Cola. [1] https://en…
> I think it is written as 50美分派对
If you look closely at the Wikipedia article, you'd see that the text in the infobox is 五毛党 (五 wǔ 5, 毛 máo 0.1 piece, 党 dǎng political group [No relation to Daniel G]).
What you wrote is 50 美分 (měi fēn American cent) 派对 (pài duì fun get-together.)
I get Bing results for both, but the "American cent" ones are all about the rapper.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a member of “no politics evar” crowd, but I feel like both deliberate digital censorship AND artificial tweaks to search results are valid topics. I hope this was the result of a rogue actor rather than a corporate decision.
I just hope they don't say it was just a mistake ("glitch") that has now been fixed, like: "Because of a mistake a configuration change meant for some only some regions was also applied to Bing US. This has now been fixed." (To be clear, I just made this up.) Edit: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-bing-raises-con... Actual quote: Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error and we are ac…
A Microsoft spokesperson tells me that "accidental human error" is to blame for missing images of "tank man" on its Bing search results.
"We are actively working to resolve this."
The incident comes on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1400906032176640004?...