Re:Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
by yegg on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:00PM
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We = DuckDuckGo. As the article notes, we are increasingly relying on our own search technology. For example, our Search Assist (our version of AI overviews), local results (maps, business listings, etc.), knowledge graph stuff (wikipedia, answers, etc.) don't come from Bing. That said, if Bing happens to removes something, we can add it back, which we do. We do not censor anything ouselves.
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Re:Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
by someperson on Saturday December 13, 2025 @08:21PM
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But DuckDuckGo does censor search results, if DMCA takedown requests are countered as censorship (which they should be because the system is abused).
Eg, DDG always fail the "watch (specific movie or tv show) online" search query test. Many other search engines like Bing and Google also fail. It's a quick censorship influence test as DMCA takedown requests have a clear track-record of being abused.
One search engine that succeeds is Russia's Yandex. I'm sure they censor plenty of things (eg, material sensitive to Russia), but that censorship set may not intersect with the Google, Bing and DDG sets.
Re:Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
by flexagoon on Sunday December 14, 2025 @12:33AM
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> Eg, DDG always fail the "watch (specific movie or tv show) online" search query test. Many other search engines like Bing and Google also fail.
DDG results are mostly Bing results, so if a page doesn't show up on Bing, it probably won't on DDG either. That doesn't mean DDG themselves censored the results.
Re:Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
by wkat4242 on Sunday December 14, 2025 @08:16PM
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As a user that distinction is meaningless. I don't care what they use as a backend, and I shouldn't have to. If their source provider censors search results it means their own search results are censored too.