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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by michaelmrose on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:10PM (#34391506)
Actually outright porn is indexed you know or so I hear.
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by irrational on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:33PM (#34391733)
Porn is one thing, the word Beej is quite another. I wish this was a joke.
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by SonOfLilit on Sunday January 15, 2023 @02:51PM (#34392599)
Indexed, but only returned if the search query was explicitly and unambiguously about porn.
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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by frickinLasers on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:52PM (#34396264)
Not true, I've had pages of x-rated results with SafeSearch on, with DDG and Bing, a couple of times. The search only needs to be sufficiently weird.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334670

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Re:I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) by SonOfLilit on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:33AM (#34399603)
Where "weird" involves words like "licking" and "party" (not saying it's not a bug, just that it's a statistics vs actual language understanding bug in a feature and not absence of that feature). I bet there's no way to compose all of the words "spatula", "serotonin", "pion" and "deconstruction" along with words like is/a/an/of/how/what/when that would turn safe search off, despite any query of this format would pretty weird.
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