In the olden days this would be akin to picking up a redacted Yellow Pages phone directory.
Comrades, the Ministry of Public Information, DuckDuckGo Division, is making modifications to the internet search engine results in order to protect us from dis-information, mis-information and mal-information. Wrongthinking perspectives will no longer be acceptable.
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The Ministry of Peace appreciates you not questioning our collective responsibility for war.
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Oh FFS. Might as well make Google my search engine again. They have better results than Duck Duck Go anyhow.
All search engines are Google-scrapers anyway! We need to figure a way to do what Googles done to massively index so much info. I guess a server farm would be a good place to start. Big bucks!
Brave search is not. Their browser is also good
I erred, as it should have read, “most”, instead of all. I still don’t like Brave.
I’ve been using Brave. As far as I can tell, it’s been giving me honest, unbiased searches. Having said that, whenever I need to search for reference images, I use Google. It’s the best at doing that IMO
Use Brave search (and also use Brave browser). Brendon Eich was co-founder of Mozilla but was forced out (early cancel culture) for donating $1K to Prop 8 in 2008. So he left and created Brave.
Thank you for that!
Use SearchPage dot com. They track. NOTHING on your searches.
You’ll be amazed at the lack of ads that pop up.
Isn’t that startpage.com? “Searchpage.com” is blocked for having pups by Malwarebytes.
Maybe you mean startpage.com.
I use it and I like it.
I still use google for technical searches related to my business. It is hard to beat for that function. I use DuckDuckGo for my default. I will be switching to startpage.
Well I guess I have to find a new back up search engine..Bye Duck Duck Go
<…Bye Duck Duck Go>
For Jenevive…It’s Duck Duck Gone 🙂
DuckDuckGo…the “smart alternative” to Google.
They won’t let you think for yourself, but at least they don’t track you…
Or do they?
Exactly — TRUTH Social cannot come quickly enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When we get in there we need to hammer them about a search engine, it would be a nice way to expand under the circumstances I think.
GGGGggggggrrrrrrrrrr….
A winning business model…TMTG!
sundance, thank you again for your, SECOND TO NONE, critical evaluation research.
Your time does not go unnoticed, AMERICAN PATRIOT!
How come they keep asking for money? Being retired, I gotta watch where everything goes.
Deleted removed goodbye!! sellouts
When I began seeing DDG commercials on TV, I knew it was only a matter of time.
Is there any search tool not manipulating what people are allowed to know.
yes, if anyone knows please tell
Braves’ founder is questionable. i stopped using it. Most of these browsers are derived from Firefox, and forked off. Most search engines use Google’s indexing.
SearchPage dot com
A good one, indeed.
guees I’ll see how Brave search is now.
I though they used duck duck
You can change the default engine. Use Startpage.
Thanks
It’s not good. Do some research. Another opportunist capitalizing on fear. I removed it from my system..
That’s why early this morning I posted Duck Duck Go sucks. I tried to go to RT and did a search and it returned me nothing with the RT domain. I knew it had started, and yep that’s why building an Internet 2.0, outside the system, is mandatory. I went to Start Page and got it with no problem. This is just getting ramped up.
Duck Duck Go Bye Bye. Started using Brave search on my Brave browser.
Oh, and, FJB😇
That’s it for me, DuckDuck, Duck off! Not gonna take.
Duck Duck Went!
Is Truth Social,running yet.?
Yes, it is. I’m not a user though, never have used social media, but friends who are into that stuff and got in line early are now using it.
However, it’s not a search engine, but can be a content source like sources are shared on CTH.
Thanks.
I’ve been using https://www.startpage.com
This photograph never ceases to depress me. These people are addicts, and like addicts everywhere, it is the addiction that defines them. I try to imagine them developing the necessary social skills to sustain a loving and enduring relationship– and I can’t.
Translation:
Anyone who uses our service is a moron and we will protect them from their stupidity.
My response:
If I’m so stupid, I must be stupid to use your service. Therefore, I won’t use your service.
My belief:
Everyone lies to further their own agenda. It’s called putting a spin on facts; I call it a lie and I judge all that’s being said accordingly.
Judge them by the content of their character…
I’ve been using https://presearch.org for the past few month. I had been using DuckDuckGo prior to that, but I was getting suspicious of their biases. Every news search result came back with articles from the usual propaganda machines (CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc.). None of the search engines ever come back with top results from Conservative Treehouse, Gateway Pundit, Red State, Rumble, etc. Not certain of presearch.org is any better, but I’ve been okay with it recently.
How about doing something about American disinformation?
It’s funny how they they are now so in your face, and then snarky about it. They’s beggin for an ass whoopin.
We were suckered into believing that duck duck go was the anti google. Big tech, big bother controls it all.
I use Brave and Startpage.
I stopped using Duckduckgo awhile back when it appeared their results were mimicking Bing’s results and switched to Startpage.
Any corporation in the information business IMO is vulnerable to the pervasive fascism currently present in the milieu of corporate/government symbiosis.
Also, lately, I’ve noticed, when testing it, that DDG takes awhile to load results, far slower than Google, Bing or Startpage. No idea why. I’d test my connection thinking it was me but no, connection is good and the others load fast.
I ran into this personally a couple of years ago, about the time of the POTUS campaigns starting up, when a forum owner I was moderating for suddenly appeared after years of absence and spouting the same thing about moderation filtering opinions and sources on the forum. What? Needless to say I didn’t last long after that, and after nearly a decade of service. Gotta love the Bolsheviks. They’re good.
Bing got really bad. Glad though that there have been some good suggestions here.
But, how will I find another Russian bride? The last one left me for some Ukrainian dude. The one before that turned out to be a Ukrainian dude.
My brother liked Philippine brides. He died after #3. Death unrelated to anything about #3.
Try yandex.com or .ru if you can read Russian. Also brings back interesting results.
What a way to obliterate your brand…seriously. Fortunately I haven’t been using them for quite some time.
I stumbled on Presearch which is a decentralized search engine using the blockchain. It’s supposed to help with keeping your searches private. The results are pretty good, however if you think google or ddg or others might have better results, there is an icon you can click to have the search done there. It integrates nicely with Brave and other browsers.
Here’s a direct link to it: https://engine.presearch.org/
Thanks for the tip!
Switched to Brave browser a couple years back. Just switched to Brave search too. Was using DDG but no more.
DuckDuckNo
One of the best comments is from Cernovich:
Replying to @yegg
Disinformation like the Russian bounty story? Or that drone strike that killed kids? Or Jussie Smollette? Or the Covington kids hoax?
How many ways can a slave be whipped ?
Evil revels in millions of HORRIFYING ways that GOOD people cannot perceive.
GOOD vs. evil.
GOD WINS. Amen
Duck Joe Biden
The Brave search info says that DuckDuckGo depends on Bing search index. FWIW.
prices keep rising people will be dropping internet services cable services if it doesn’t get attacked first remember information war what better way to sensor.
When the State Department issued the “World War Reddit” declaration, it made a point of saying there would be a campaign to target “misinformation.”
The censorship tools rolled out to “combat covid misinformation” are now being repurposed to “combat Russian misinformation.”
“Anti-Ukraine” sentiment will be conflated with “anti-war” sentiment. “Anti-war” views will become “pro-Russian” views which will then be “fact-checked,” labelled as misinformation and propaganda, and removed from “responsible platforms.”
Is it April 1st?
Who uses Qwant? Opinions?
Just switched.
I use Qwant sometimes. They do seem more willing to bring up sources from alternative media.
Best, most secure and neutral. Based in France.
Swisscows is a very private search engine but doesn’t have the 100000s of results pages that gulag would produce.
But then….who looks past the first page or two anyway?
For business related searches of a technical nature, I sometimes get ten deep at the gulag.
I just switched to startpage. Go f yourself Gabriel Weinberg and duckduckgo.
This isn’t “BigTech” any longer. And this is government and/or partners with government making this happen. The evidence is all over the place. Fund judicial watch and ask them to focus more on civil rights and especially bill of rights violations at request and demand of government.
So glad someone is watching out for all of us who cannot “think for ourselves”. Just tell us what to do, when and how to do it! And, we can all live happily ever after. What a crock!
I have been telling people here for years not to use DDG. All you have to do is look at who they donate to.
I was on CTH website yesterday on my laptop reading Sundance’s story about Google deleting Oliver Stone’s documentary “Ukraine on Fire”. I wanted to text it to my SIL so I picked up my iphone, went to the CTH website to text the piece and it was not there. I use DUCK DUCK GO on my iphone and Startpage on my laptop. I couldn’t believe it. I then used Startpage to search CTH on my iphone and low and behold the story was on the website. I am done with DUCK DUCK GO
If any of you are a bit computer savy, I would check out Pale Moon browser. Like most, it based on Firefox, but they forked years ago. Add Ublock, and Ublock Updater and you’re set. I’m a Linux Fedora user, so I’m well outside mainstream.
http://www.palemoon.org/
Vivaldi browser based on the Chrome engine built by the original founder of Opera browser. No ownership by TPTB.
Duck off!
Hello Swisscows
I’m so confused…….
I’m lucky if I can turn this damn thing on and actually READ something without having to get the grandkids to bail me out.
Now you people are talking about Ducks, Brave, Start and Pre-Search.
I’m stressed….I might not make it to 77.
“I feel your pain”! Hang in there, I’m 85 and know how to turn it on and off…lol.
What about Bing? Safari?
Not Bing I switched from there.
Brave Search is the best I’ve seen thus far. And if you use Infinity New Tab (Pro) you can configure it to use Brave Search in Google Chrome or any other browser really.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/infinity-new-tab-pro/nnnkddnnlpamobajfibfdgfnbcnkgngh/reviews?utm_source=infinity-rate
There’s another search engine out there — swisscows.com. It claims to allow us to “search anonymously, without tracking and completely privately.” I haven’t verified the claims but I am using it now instead of DuckDuckGo.
I’m using Protonmail for my email, another Swiss service which claims to protect privacy unlike Gmail, etc.
Saw the writing on the wall with DDG some months ago and moved to StartPage.
Big mistake by DDG here. Even if they end up walking it back (unlikely) it won’t help.
So … how can we be sure this isn’t “dis-information” put out by google??
Weinberg? How unusual!
We must assume that history has shown this young fellow nothing.
We might also assume he has been shown nothing of history. True history.
Indoctrinated only to know what has been drilled into his non-inquisitive cranium to know and nothing more.
Does anyone have a codebook for Smoke Signals?
Truth Social is going to have to add a Truth Search feature.
Instant hit.
What?!….and contribute further to glowbull warmening with carbon emissions!!!
Give a go at semaphore.
See Monty Python on Youtube for a fine example of its use.
Get the flags out! Time to resurrect the Civil War Flag Corp. Interesting history.
I guess there connection to Google was more than just a technical convenience. I’m glad I never committed to using them.
I think Mozilla Firefox is the same type of deal.
Soon ballots will be printed, omitting candidates that have been deemed to be dangerous.
They already are.
No need! Dominion takes care of that as a cost-saving feature!
They are…
Both Mozilla and DDG are Google lite.