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    DuckDuckGo has started censoring

    And Just Like That, DuckDuckGo Becomes Google — One Time Free Search Engine Now Down-Ranks Conservative Content – Bans Gateway Pundit

    This morning we received this email from a Gateway Pundit reader:

    Hi Jim,
    I don't now if you're aware of it but it appears that duckduckgo is now filtering out your website. I switched over to their android app back in 2020 and I could just type in "thegatewaypundit.com" and your site would be the first to come up.
    Last week I noticed it wouldn't come up at all anymore unless I add the www. In front of it. This morning I noticed even if I type the whole thing now, it doesn't come up at all.
    I just tested the duckduckgo.com search using chrome and searching on The Gateway Pundit - Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback does not return your site at all.
    As I'm sure you are – getting a bit sick of this.
    Best,
    Kevin
    Thanks Kevin, yes we are. Later today we did a search on gatewaypundit on DuckDuckGo to see what we get.

    If you search for The Gateway Pundit on DuckDuckGo they do not even list the front page of our website in their search engine.
    And they include the Wikipedia slander and every other major hit piece on The Gateway Pundit instead.


    We have been disappeared. Despite having millions of readers a day the top articles that pop up for Gateway Pundit include hit pieces that had no traffic.

    What adds insult to injury is that the search engines and Big Tech demons will allow knock-off sites to steal our content word-for-word, including photos and video and that is OK. That is approved. This is the evil we are up against.

    Today Breitbart posted a report on DuckDuckGo. They have become Google. They are actively censoring conservative content that does not fit their world view.

    Via Breitbart.

    Popular privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, commonly considered an alternative to Google, has announced that it will be "down-ranking" sites associated with "disinformation," along with adding "information boxes" to "highlight quality information." The announcement received widespread backlash from DuckDuckGo supporters, who view the changes as adopting the censorship policies of the Masters of the Universe.
    In a recent Twitter post, the CEO of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced that the company would be downranking "sites associated with disinformation," which has been a popular tactic by Google for years to reduce user access to content it considers objectionable.
    DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg tweeted about the decision, stating that it was an effort to reduce Russian disinformation online. "Like so many others I am sickened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️," Weinberg stated, adding: "At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation."
    Weinberg goes on to say that DuckDuckGo will also be placing news modules and information boxes at the top of certain search results to highlight "quality information for rapidly unfolding topics." This was a method used by many search engines and social media sites during the coronavirus pandemic to push official government narratives and information — that regularly changed drastically — to internet users.
    Here are Weinberg's tweets.

    DuckDuckGo's mission is to make ...




    And Just Like That, DuckDuckGo Becomes Google — One Time Free Search Engine Now Down-Ranks Conservative Content – Bans Gateway Pundit – Future Money Fate

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    duckduckgo doesn't have its own search index. It used to use results from Yandex, a Russian engine but they have probably switched to bing.

    I spoke with the owner Gabe many years ago when I was building an engine, his took off! Mine sputtered.

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    duckduckgo doesn't have its own search index. It used to use results from Yandex, a Russian engine but they have probably switched to bing.

    I spoke with the owner Gabe many years ago when I was building an engine, his took off! Mine sputtered.
    So was this a setup to gain popularity and build base capital?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    So was this a setup to gain popularity and build base capital?
    I'm not sure what he is up to but I do know he has never had his own search index and has always used results from other engines. His ads come from Google and Bing so I'm not sure how much "privacy" he really supports, the ads are where the real data collection happens.

    I might call the operation something like "controlled competition", Google gets to claim they are not a monopoly, but that's just conjecture.

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    DuckDuckGo is also often beholden to the content policies of Big Tech search engines, because that's where it actually gets its search results. For example, when the infamous "Tank Man" Chinese protest photo temporarily disappeared from Bing last year, the photo stopped appearing in DuckDuckGo's search results as well.
    The company has recently "paused" its partnership with the Russian search engine Yandex. DuckDuckGo was using the service's results for some of its search queries in certain countries.
    DuckDuckGo 'down-ranks' Russian disinformation. The search engine's users are not happy.

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    What are our alternatives to DuckDuckGo now?

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    here's one...

    https://www.qwant.com/

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    DuckDuck has to Go

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    I do not understand the problem. DuckDuck does not want to share russian propaganda.
    Do people in the west really believe in russian propaganda?
    I hope that believers know to discern what the read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tschau View Post
    I do not understand the problem. DuckDuck does not want to share russian propaganda.
    Do people in the west really believe in russian propaganda?
    I hope that believers know to discern what the read.
    In a free society, one where there is true freedom of speech, readers do discern what is truth. It is really up to the reader to discern - not for Big Tech to determine and put their own definition of truth on everything. This is really what has been happening for decades, and even moreso since March 2020. It's not about Russian propaganda, this issue is about have the freedom to read what we want, when we want, and in what form we want.

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