The Duckduckgo Skeptic Thread

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ETA: My brain amalgamated Discord and Brave because of this notice I got from Discord very recently; Brave may not be doing the censorship just yet.
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tehpope said:
Searx is basically it. I don't trust Brave Search since they just put out that SJW-ifed Code of Conduct shit.

I got libredirect and it just works. The chrome version is only on their github it seems.
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Searx is just a meta-search, it gets its results from various indexers including Google and Bing. So if the indexers it's pulling from are de-ranking unapproved sources then it's not going to do you much good. It's trying to solve a different problem.
 
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Spasticus Autisticus said:
Searx is just a meta-search, it gets its results from various indexers including Google and Bing. So if the indexers it's pulling from are de-ranking unapproved sources then it's not going to do you much good. It's trying to solve a different problem.
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Well then Yandex.

Con - Runs in Russia
Pro - Russian results. The best reverse image search online.
 
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Spasticus Autisticus said:
The better question is, what search engine uses an index that can be trusted? The weakest link is always going to be the index. If you wanted to make a non-woke unfiltered search engine, you need to find an index to give you results. By far the biggest indexers are Google, Bing and Yandex. So you can already see the problem there. There are some independent indexers out there, Brave is one, but I haven't looked much into this. Thankfully someone with more autism than me has done so, although this guy is still a faggot since he apparently excluded two "far-right" search engines: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html (archive)

edit: There is Right Dao, can't vouch for their results but they at least talk a good game on their About page. Searching for "shelling of donbass by ukrainian army" brings up RT and Sputnik on the first page so that's promising.
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Any idea what these two are?
 
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With how hard it was "organically" pushed literally everywhere to the exception of any other alternative I've always considered it likely controlled opposition from day one.

But I still use it sometimes because I liked having to actually construct good queries back in the days before Google got so smart that it reads your mind at the expense of not being able to return anything obscure.
Even that seems to have fallen off a cliff with DDG in the last few years though. I guess it's great if you want pages and pages of useless fucking crypto hashes instead of results
 
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