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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by verisimi on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:11PM (#30633183)
No - they are explicitly adding bias here. They are coding it into their algorithm.

Frankly, I'd be surprised if there weren't implicit biases already there.

But this is something new. Its overt, explicit.

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by gibrown on Thursday March 10, 2022 @07:18PM (#30634480)
> they are explicitly adding bias here.

All search engines are explicitly biased. That is the point, they generate a ranking of results. Heck even how you tokenize text is an explicit bias of what you match against.

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Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin... by kube-system on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:33PM (#30634106)
There is nothing about this that is close to new. Everyone who runs a real search engine on the public internet has a need to explicitly code in edge-cases from time to time.
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