Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirate' URLs Last Year

Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by LegionMammal978 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:07PM (#37376473)

No search engine seems to respond very well to the query "presidential candidate websites" (without the quotes), by your criterion. As an experiment, I tried it with a few of them from a private tab on my phone, looking at the first 5 pages of results.

Yandex.com (page length 10) doesn't link to any candidate websites.

DDG (page lengths 10, 20, 50, 50, 50) links to Joe Biden (page 1), Nikki Haley (page 2), RFK Jr. (page 2), Chris Christie (page 3), Marianne Williamson (page 3), Ron DeSantis (page 3), and Perry Johnson (page 4). It's missing Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Mike Pence.

Bing (page lengths 10, 14, 14, 14, 14) links to Joe Biden (page 1), Nikki Haley (page 2), Chris Christie (page 2), Marianne Williamson (page 3), RFK Jr. (page 3), and Ron DeSantis (page 3). It's missing Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Mike Pence.

Brave Search (page length 19) links to Joe Biden (page 1), Marianne Williamson (page 1), and Cornel West (page 3). It's missing RFK Jr., as well as all Republican candidates.

Yahoo (page length 10) links to Nikki Haley (page 2), Chris Christie (page 2), RFK Jr. (page 4), and Ron DeSantis (page 4). It's missing Joe Biden, Marianne Williamson, Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Mike Pence.

Google (page length 10) links to Joe Biden (page 1), Marianne Williamson (page 1), Ron DeSantis (page 4), and Mike Pence (page 5). It's missing RFK Jr., Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, and Chris Christie.

None of these search engines link to more than two candidate websites within the first 20 results, nor do they link to Trump's or Ramaswamy's websites, so Google is far from alone in that regard. (I haven't been able to test with Kagi Search to see if it is any different.)

Perhaps search engines are simply bound to see such a query as asking more for the concept of candidate websites in general, than for topical examples in particular.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by superq on Sunday September 03, 2023 @11:29PM (#37376865)

Thanks, upvoting for the extensive research!

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by alaxapta7 on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:37AM (#37378441)

Kagi, location set to United States:

Page 1: Biden, Williamson and link to an article Google hides campaign sites of Trump, RFK Jr. and other Republican candidates

Page 2: Biden again, Pence

No further pages.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by carlosjobim on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:25PM (#37381991)

On Kagi (International) I got these results on the first page:

First result: Joe Biden

Further down: Bernie Sanders, Marianne Williamsson, Hillary Clinton

Further down: Article: "Google hides campaign sites of Trump, RFK Jr. and other Republican candidates"

Further down: Ron DeSantis

Between these results there are several links with lists of all candidates.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by alaxapta7 on Monday September 04, 2023 @02:19PM (#37383301)

Did it give you a result leading directly to their canonical campaign website? I can see Sanders and Clinton with international, but can't see DeSantis nor any other Republican candidate (not even Pence).

I can definitelly see pages with lists of candidates, but I couldn't find a single one that would also link their websites and thus satisfy the query, at least indirectly.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by carlosjobim on Monday September 04, 2023 @02:55PM (#37383670)

The results seem to change as we speak. I no longer have any republican candidates on the first page of search results, but the links in the results are to the canonical campaign sites.

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