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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by raverbashing on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:03AM (#17430365)
Not necessarily

A filter bubble is building a story of previous searches to get more relevant results.

So the first time you search 'Python' on Google with no history it might prioritize snakes or the computer language, but after some clicks it will know better how to prioritize

Now, DDG correctly detects the country I'm in, but even with that set the results are weird and not always relevant.

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by PostOnce on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:19AM (#17430412)
Filters come in various forms, search history, language, location, OS, account-based history, etc.

Filtering my results based on my location is still a filter bubble. Filtering it based on anything, and not just showing me exactly the same results as everyone else who searched the same query is the definition of a filter bubble.

People who don't want to be bubbled use DDG. It's a big part of the reason it exists, and you want that changed. What you actually want is another search engine, which is probably Google since they have the most functional (in the sense of utility derived by the end user) filter bubbles.

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