DuckDuckGo Can No Longer Be Trusted

[Jackie Daytona]

I'm sure this will be old news to many of you, but I can no longer trust DuckDuckGo. I've heard for some time that I shouldn't trust them. But I always felt like their search results were quite good. Seems that is no longer the case.

I heard that the U.S. just spent over 1 trillion on it's latest budget. So, I wanted to see what exactly is in it. What precisely is my government spending money on?

So, I turned to DuckDuckGo. Out of the first 80 search results there was only ONE right-leaning news organization. (And three somewhat-neutral sites. Which each appeared once.) Here's a list of left-leaning sites they gave me: (Yes, it was mainly these sites repeating over 80 results.)

• nbcnews.com
  
• washingtonpost.com
  
• nytimes.com
  
• cnn.com
  
• cbsnews.com
  
• bloomberg.com
  
• apnews.com
  
• reuters.com
  
• pbs.org
  
• usatoday.com
  
• npr.org
  
• msn.com
  
• cbsnews.com

All of these might as well merge. Since they all provide an identical perspective. (Well, I suppose npr and pbs could only merge with eachother, but you know what I mean.) It's not as if any of them provide a noticeable difference of information.

Anyway, I can't trust search results that only lean one-way. That's why I don't use Bing or Google. They openly admit that they alter results to try to influence the minds of people that use their services.

Any suggestions for other search engines? Is there a politically neutral one out there somewhere?

(Oh, and if you're wondering how my reading into the budget went? Poorly. Seems neither side wants the public to know where all the money is going.)

[76561199099449901]

Who defines left and right?

What is considered middle ground in most of the world is seen as dangerous far left in the US (Because the US is so far right it is ridiculous)

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From what I heard, it's an issue with all search engines, or at least all well known ones. Don't remember the reason why, but it might be because websites are all working to make sure their site is the top result, which skews the results. Or it could be something else, I don't really know, it was just a wild guess.

[Abaddon the Despoiler]

Make your own search engine.

[Enigmatic]

Originally posted by Abaddon the Despoiler:

Make your own search engine.

If you got skills maybe make a web bot to crawl the interwebs.

Maybe those guys put doubleclick.net in their host file is why I can't find that website.

[Sigma957]

Originally posted by Ferro Maljinn:

Who defines left and right?

What is considered middle ground in most of the world is seen as dangerous far left in the US (Because the US is so far right it is ridiculous)

Hegelian Dialect.

[Enigmatic]

I wonder what the Lord of Host's website would look like.

[Vox]

Get daddy Donald to make a search engine.

[DoomsDay]

I love it, citizen strive for their sanity and mind against search engines,when someone on the other side of the screen is going to facilitate me writing to have a child, and that's not a difference between left and right, that's a difference between language and coc.

this pitiful situation, I cant love it in one bit. how did it all become like this.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Oh brother, here we go again.

[Jackie Daytona]

Originally posted by Ferro Maljinn:

Who defines left and right?

What is considered middle ground in most of the world is seen as dangerous far left in the US (Because the US is so far right it is ridiculous)

The positions that politicians take, largely determines that. If you need a primer in the basic definitions of politics? Make your own thread.

Whataboutism. So, what if it varies by county? This is about the U.S. Not about the viewpoints of other countries toward politics.

All these sites are American companies or organizations. And I'm being directed towards them specifically. That's what you should be concerned with.

[The Saxon blood wizard of Albion]

Yes, it's old news, and my answer to you, irrespective of your politically loaded question, is to try and create 'your own' solutions instead of conforming to (and believing in) politics.

Now an answer relevant to the question of the DuckduckGo search engine in terms of censorship: I'm going to leave these two resources on what the CEO has said¹, and then on what their website says².
(1)[web.archive.org] (2)[duckduckgo.com]

With the evidence in mind that is presented, I heavily suspect that DuckDuckGo, like Google, are two-faced liars (as is typical—like a politician). If you want uncensored results 'due to' the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ affairs of politics, then I'd begin with startpage.com or search.brave.com

Originally posted by Comfortable_East:

Dark web has many neutral search engines.

A deep web search engine is only going to give you the unindexed results—which is in itself generally a trust-worthy means of zero censorship—but it isn't going to give you the answers that you would find on the 'indexed' surface web as 99% of them are just there to give you results for the 'unindexed' internet.

Also, ironically, DuckduckGo hosts a deep web browser; but just because they're on the deep web doesn't mean that it doesn't also actively censor results. There's always someone behind the operation who has control over the whole process (and it ultimately depends on their philosophy whether they want to play as Big Brother and nanny the adult masses or not).

[Yew Nough]

Originally posted by Sigma957:

Originally posted by Ferro Maljinn:

Who defines left and right?

What is considered middle ground in most of the world is seen as dangerous far left in the US (Because the US is so far right it is ridiculous)

Hegelian Dialect.

No one wants to put all their ideas on the table to deduce whats trash and whats gold

Seeing every other thread: It's much easier to make loud noises and cover your ears

[Grug]

Originally posted by Ferro Maljinn:

Who defines left and right?

What is considered middle ground in most of the world is seen as dangerous far left in the US (Because the US is so far right it is ridiculous)

Cool. I love it when non-americans have no idea what they're talking about.

[Valfossa]

Give this a try.
https://searx.space/

Pick one from the list and see if you get more neutral results.

[TWPanda77]

Could be worse, it could be bing. I started using mojeek.com and it returns some interesting results.