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       Thread[.post]: 31.6
       TACKER:  unicorn (Chuck Martin)
       SUBJECT: .. Duckgo getting into the censorship business?
       DATE:    09-Aug-22 06:58:23
       HOST:    iceland
       
       It appears I was wrong about DuckDuckGo not having their own web crawler.
       I also don't remember where I read they used Bing.  Maybe they relied
       more on Bing in the past.  I just looked them up in Wikipedia, and found
       this:
       
           DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources
           according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS,  Wolfram
           Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none
           from Google.  It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as
           Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the
           search results.
       
           Weinberg has refined the quality of his search engine results by
           deleting search results for companies he believes are content mills,
           such as eHow, which publishes 4,000 articles per day produced by
           paid freelance writers, which Weinberg states to be "low-quality
           content designed specifically to rank highly in Google's search
           index".  DuckDuckGo also filters pages with substantial advertising.
       
       So they do filter results.  Since they don't track you, though, you
       aren't subject to the "filter bubble" that Google, Bing, and others
       are guilty of.
       
       
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       TACKER:  unicorn (Chuck Martin)
       SUBJECT: .. Duckgo getting into the censorship business?
       DATE:    09-Aug-22 06:58:23
       HOST:    iceland
       
       It appears I was wrong about DuckDuckGo not having their own web crawler.
       I also don't remember where I read they used Bing.  Maybe they relied
       more on Bing in the past.  I just looked them up in Wikipedia, and found
       this:
       
           DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources
           according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS,  Wolfram
           Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none
           from Google.  It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as
           Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the
           search results.
       
           Weinberg has refined the quality of his search engine results by
           deleting search results for companies he believes are content mills,
           such as eHow, which publishes 4,000 articles per day produced by
           paid freelance writers, which Weinberg states to be "low-quality
           content designed specifically to rank highly in Google's search
           index".  DuckDuckGo also filters pages with substantial advertising.
       
       So they do filter results.  Since they don't track you, though, you
       aren't subject to the "filter bubble" that Google, Bing, and others
       are guilty of.
       
       
       
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