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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? by nojito on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:10AM (#30661886)
Ranking search results by definition cannot be unbiased.
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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? by pessimizer on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:42AM (#30662236)
They mentioned "apolitical."

You can have apolitical ranking algorithms (although the results may have political implications.) I think what they were really going for is a-nationalist (to fail to coin a word.) It's legitimate to be wary of private industry partnering with government to push a nationalist agenda.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? by networkid on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:42AM (#30662241)
Yes, but making it explicitly politically biased is even worse
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