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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by zarzavat on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:42PM (#31839255)
How did DDG reveal its focus on politics? Are you referring to them dropping Yandex? Unfortunately there’s no good options in that situation because however good Yandex is, it basically gives the Russian government free reign to inject propaganda into search results, which is basically the opposite of being apolitical.
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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by lostlogin on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:50PM (#31839386)
The weird situation they got themselves into with Tank Man was revealing.

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...

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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by ziddoap on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:18PM (#31839790)
Is there more to this story than in the article?

Because I don't see anything "revealing" about that situation, other than that DDG suffered from Bings error, as they use Bing's results. What did this incident reveal specifically about DDG?

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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by hunterb123 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:24PM (#31839857)
I'd say it's revealing how closely they are tied to the censorship that Microsoft employs.

Might have been obvious to those who knew where they got their index from, but it was certainly highlighted by that event.

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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by i67vw3 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:56PM (#31839489)
AMP link.....

Non Amp link-https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft...

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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by lostlogin on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:34AM (#31846141)
Argh. Thank you.
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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by blub on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:06PM (#31839637)
It probably refers to DDG down-ranking so-called Russian disinformation.

Which sounds like a brilliant idea until one remembers the clusterfuck of censoring pandemic-related disinformation which transformed into a witch hunt of everything which didn’t match the mainstream political opinion.

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Re:Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose ... by theandrewbailey on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:47PM (#31839337)
For me, it was the founder announcing that they were going to de-rank "sites associated with russian disinformation".

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-ass...

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