DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,077 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

So, a good yet controversial way to determine the search accuracy vs search, policy of any search engine is to search "Alex Jones". The goal is to see, which search engine shows "Infowars" in their first page.

So, here are the results.

Sites that don't show that website on the first page:

https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+jones

Shows on the first page -

https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=index&q=alex+jones

https://www.bing.com/search?q=alex+jones

Yahoo search does (URL too long)

https://search.ononoki.org/search?q=Alex+Jones || Searx Public Instance

https://search.brave.com/search?q=alex+jones&source=web

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alex+jones || Last Result of the first page

First result -

https://yandex.com/search/?oprnd=3043351880&text=alex+jones&...

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This is not a good test of search engine performance or even search accuracy. DDG shows the result but at the very last entry, but I do remember not seeing that result at all several months ago while it showed up in most other notable search engines (except for google of course did).

The privacy first idea of DDG is a bit hypocritic when you apply search policies. Filtering isn't the same as moderation. I do use google as my main search engine but for desperate times DDG was never my second choice.

• Searx

  154 13,152 7.7 Python

  Discontinued Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

  

Private search aggregation engine

https://github.com/searx/searx

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• searxng

  121 8,263 9.8 Python

  SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

  

Self-hosted SearXNG [0]

Have your own search aggregator.

[0] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

• Android

  64 3,539 9.9 Kotlin

  DuckDuckGo Android App (by duckduckgo)

  

What??? They are literally admitting to collecting domains in the feed of the Github issue but then just copy and paste their manifesto and expect us to think it's fine. I seriously do not understand this.

[1] https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527

• kagisearchsafari

  1 38 0.0

  Kagi Search Extension for Safari Browser

You can, using a Kagi for Safari extension.

https://github.com/marcocebrian/kagisearchsafari

• uMatrix

  68 4,134 3.4 JavaScript

  Discontinued uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type

It's officially deprecated, but it still works.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

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