#DuckDuckGone is trending on twitter after CEO tweets intentions to censor russian disinformation

5 comments

You guys are overreacting. DDG said they would only down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. It's normal for search engines to downrank low-quality sites such as SEO spam.
- Why was the well documented Western disinformation not ranked down, or why is Fox News the second result when "ukraine" is searched?
here's a list of public searx & SearXNG instances

If anyone has good experiences with any of them, definitely share!
- SearX instances mysteriously do not have Yandex as an option, even though before this it used to be on most.
  
  I looked through the git, it was removed here: https://github.com/searx/searx/pull/2566
  
  It appears that Yandex would respond to requests with a captcha and they were unable to fix it, so they removed it.
Yandex looks incredibly based right now, unironically. They are an insanely amazing search engine provider.
- Based on what?
  
  Based on quality of search results. No US-EU search engine has that level of quality, neither on textual nor reverse image results.