Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin...
by azangru on Thursday March 10, 2022 @12:57PM
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> but do you really want your search engine to default to providing results from someone with a very clear agenda and a history of abusing their influence to carry out that agenda?
This is a very strange strawman. The implicit assumptions in this question are:
- That DuckDuckGo 'defaulted' to RT or to some other Russian media, which is hardly the case. It is the task of a search engine to infer, from its users' behaviour, which resources they find the most useful in providing answers to given queries.
- That other sources do not have a clear agenda :-)
This is a very strange strawman. The implicit assumptions in this question are:
- That DuckDuckGo 'defaulted' to RT or to some other Russian media, which is hardly the case. It is the task of a search engine to infer, from its users' behaviour, which resources they find the most useful in providing answers to given queries.
- That other sources do not have a clear agenda :-)