I hope DuckDuckGo has something similar to Search Console or Webmaster Tools.
Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search
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you're avoiding the question.
The fuck I am, which antivax conspiracy theor(ies) were actually proven true?
That in some patients there might be adverse health effects from the vaccine.
That the us funded gain of function research in novel coronaviruses.
That the virus would mutate faster than the vaccine rollout and Covid would go seasonal.
And you’re still avoiding the question.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Many people were also certain of obvious beliefs that turned out to be untrue.
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I get so tired of seeing yegg raked over the coals for this one. A search engine by definition takes an editorial stance on things. They take in all of the internet and decide what to present to users. For a search engine to take no editorial position is to yield the floor to whoever can best game the system, and a propaganda machine like Russia's is absolutely capable of exploiting a search engine that doesn't proac…
> A search engine by definition takes an editorial stance on things. That editorial stance should be "show the user what they are looking for and want to see". The customer is always right, otherwise the real customer is someone else. > For a search engine to take no editorial position is to yield the floor to whoever can best game the system I am not against search engines having heuristics against state-sponsored p…
> The customer is always right, otherwise the real customer is someone else.
Sometimes a company takes an ethical stance for the sake of being ethical. Shocking, I know, but it occasionally happens.
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#245On HN, it's not ok to use the title field to point out what you think is important about an article. That's called editorializing, and it's disallowed by https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : " Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " (Submitted title was "DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US".) If you want to say what you think…
Thanks for this clarification dang. I was confused as the title in my RSS feed was much different than when I clicked through to the thread. Thought there was an issue with my rss aggregator for a second.
Aside: If you don't mind sharing; which url and reader are you using? Either my reader or url is so slow that I only saw the amended title in my feed. My url tries to grab only the most popular posts, so that may be the largest contributor, but I'd love to know if there's a faster way.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
> despite no proof that it isn't a possibility Because you don’t get to come up with a “theory” and dump the burden of the proof on someone else. That’s incredibly stupid. Not how how science and common sense work.
Are you saying that people shouldn't get to publicly say anything that they don't have proof of?
I think in practice free speech should be limited if it’s clearly damaging. In case of anti-vax movement, it’s just crystal clear that allowing them to spread the word was detrimental to public health. So I’m in favor banning those who use their rights to free speech to undermine the policies and efforts that are put forward to save lives. Like, I don’t care about flat earth wackos.
And I see how the concept of “misinformation” can be used very broadly to silence political opponents. But I do wish there was a perfect solution.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for this clarification dang. I was confused as the title in my RSS feed was much different than when I clicked through to the thread. Thought there was an issue with my rss aggregator for a second.
Aside: If you don't mind sharing; which url and reader are you using? Either my reader or url is so slow that I only saw the amended title in my feed. My url tries to grab only the most popular posts, so that may be the largest contributor, but I'd love to know if there's a faster way.
I use my own miniflux instance on a linode/VPS.
It tends to pick stuff up fairly quickly (in most cases).
Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying that people shouldn't get to publicly say anything that they don't have proof of?
I think in practice free speech should be limited if it’s clearly damaging. In case of anti-vax movement, it’s just crystal clear that allowing them to spread the word was detrimental to public health. So I’m in favor banning those who use their rights to free speech to undermine the policies and efforts that are put forward to save lives. Like, I don’t care about flat earth wackos. And I see how the concept of “misi…
> I think in practice free speech should be limited if it’s clearly damaging.
The problem with that position is, who decides what counts as "clearly damaging"? What if the government and media were extremely anti-vaccine and chose to censor pro-vaccine speech instead, calling it "clearly damaging"?
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#249They're actually reasonably good. I often find that they do weird things like linking to non-US versions of websites instead of a US version. So I end up on the British or Dutch version of a website, with prices quoted in GBP or EUR. I find myself using the "!g" shortcut (which takes me to Google) more often than I'd have liked to. Thankfully, Apple offers this as one of their search engine options (despite being pai…
I cant give up DDG cause those shortcuts are just too damn good. !m and !ud
Annoyingly, !g is right next to !h on most keyboards, and I often find myself searching through Haskell documentation instead of searching Google.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aside: If you don't mind sharing; which url and reader are you using? Either my reader or url is so slow that I only saw the amended title in my feed. My url tries to grab only the most popular posts, so that may be the largest contributor, but I'd love to know if there's a faster way.
I use my own miniflux instance on a linode/VPS. It tends to pick stuff up fairly quickly (in most cases). https://miniflux.app/
Thanks!