The results they display on searches, however, have always been heavily dependent on Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which is not a whole lot different than the kind of searches you would find on Google, and the censorship inherent upon deciding which results to display. Well, the first thing to understand about DuckDuckGo’s claims and appeal to those who do not want to use Google, is that they emphasize privacy, so that your searches are not being used to track your activity. So is it time to ditch DuckDuckGo as an alternative search engine to the evil Google search? #StandWithUkraine️ At DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. This week, Weinberg, took everything his organization had been working on for years, and flushed it down the toilet with a single tweet. Their growth has been nearly exponential. Since its inception, the pro-privacy and anti-tracking business model has propelled the company from just a couple hundred thousand searches a month to over 100,000,000 searches every day. In 2008, Gabriel Weinberg started this mission with an emphasis on protecting searchers’ privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results that comes with all things Google. Anyone following the news in the Alternative Media this past week has probably been shocked to learn that the popular alternative search engine, DuckDuckGo, announced that they were beginning to censor search results based on “Russian Disinformation.”Īrguably the world’s most popular private search engine, DuckDuckGo, has long been a haven for those who do not want to participate in Google’s censorship, manipulation, and tracking.

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