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DuckDuckGo Filters Search Results (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: Conversation here.

This is a relatively old story now, but I thought I would post about it, as I haven't seen anyone else do the same on this community.

For those that don't know, DuckDuckGo's CEO & founder Gabriel Weinberg posted the following on his Twitter:

Would love to know the community’s thoughts. Personally, I don't think this is a big deal - all search engines have to favour certain results over others... it's the intrinsic state of a search engine - although I know some people are rather upset.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's interesting. It's not as apolitical as Gabriel Weinberg makes it sound (because everything is of course political, including opposing disinformation). I'm not sure how DuckDuckGo codify this approach - for example, as terrible as the disinformation from Russia is, what do DuckDuckGo plan to do about the disinformation in the West? Or does that not bother them? Honest questions, by the way; I'm not claiming to know all the answers 🙂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Discussion has been held/might be ongoing in this c/technology thread.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ahhh, perfect; thank-you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I really like the decentralised moderation model proposed by the Element folks (and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has promoted something similar): https://element.io/blog/moderation-needs-a-radical-change/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dont understand the issue?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

People are not happy at DDG filtering their web results as they feel they should be able to decide for themselves what is fake news and what is real.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've switched temporarily to Brave now, but since Brave browser is pushing the "support Ukraine' narrative, I'd guess they, too, could filter results. Most search engines use Google. Any tips on search engines not using Google?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know Mojeek have their own database of pages that are not taken from Google or Bing or anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That being said, their results are not the best. I would probably recommend MetaGer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brave browser is pushing the "support Ukraine’ narrative, I’d guess they, too, could filter results.

Can you give a link to that information?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use Firefox and I just do a Ctrl+mouseScrollUp or ctrl+= and it remembers the zoom for that website.

Can't, but it was a big image of a creature or mascot with a big Ukrinian flag. Maybe someone here can add to what I saw.