Guess who’s protecting us from “disinformation” now
Some people prefer to avoid Google for privacy reasons, and because Google skews results in favor of establishment-approved content.
Those people often use a search engine called Duck Duck Go.
Well, the CEO of Duck Duck Go just made this announcement:
Mike Cernovich then came back with:
I can’t speak for you, dear reader, but I think I’ve had just about enough of being told what I can and cannot read, what is and what isn’t “disinformation,” and naive people who think these designations are for our own good and being put to benign purposes.
We want to let a search engine decide what information is legitimate?
You think that might be selectively applied? (It already is, of course.)
You think perfectly legitimate views won’t get caught in this dragnet? Half of Twitter already thinks you’re a Russian agent if you deviate from the State Department line even a little.
Nope, especially after two years of sinister weirdos shutting down discussion, I won’t be tricked into this.
If you’d like a search engine that doesn’t try to tell you what to think, consider Presearch dot com.
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Max DeLoaches
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I stopped using search engines for “hot ticket” items. I receive more information tips from the comments section of the sites I visit and the various pod casts that are available.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Max,
Yes, what you wrote is also true for me. However, I often find that that the information I learn from comments has merely come from what what the commenters had merely read due to the search engines. Hence, it was nothing uniquely original (new knowledge due to what the commenter had done.
I discovered PSI because somehow (I do not remember how) because Carl Allen B?????)) and Joe Postma were having a discussion (actually a disagreement) about Hoarse de Saussure’s hot box which Hoarse had originally constructed and experimented with because he (Hoarse) had noticed that buildings with glass windows tended to be warmer on the inside than the outside air. And Carl had noticed that a pane of glass leaning against a solid mineral wall prevented sunlight from warming the wall. And I eventually began constructing Hoarse’s hot boxes from modern materials to see what I could see. And one thing I have seen (observed) is that Hoarse’s HOT BOX was an instrument and the first RADIOMETER (to my knowledge) ever invented.
And I see that my essays and comments have been generally ignored as Galileo’s book (Two New Science’s) and Lane Cooper’s book (Louis Agassiz AS A Teacher) have been ignored by those who make PSI comments.. But I know there are other readers (than the commenters) who do not make comments. Therefore I have no knowledge of what these many reader’s take away from what they read here at PSI. But I am optimistic that some PSI readers do profitably use the information they learn about here, just as you (Max) and I have..
Have a good day, Jerry
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Howdy
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Since the article appears to be an advertisement….
Presearch: “Each user can earn PRE rewards when using the search engine. The reward per search and max. rewards per day differ each day, as per our Tokenomics engine V1.0. These numbers can be viewed in the dashboard on a daily basis, here.
25 PRE tokens can also be earned when you refer a new user through your referral account.”
“If you’d like a search engine that doesn’t try to tell you what to think
I can’t speak for you, dear reader, but I think I’ve had just about enough of being told what I can and cannot read, what is and what isn’t “disinformation,” and naive people who think these designations are for our own good and being put to benign purposes.”
So instead use another ‘search’ that wants to try to tell you how THEY think you should think, and get ‘rewarded’ (I hate that word). What, like a dog doing a trick for a treat?
No thanks. Don’t you see a problem there?
I use DDG, and will continue. It has usefull additions that I like, yet all searches are just lists. Surely you don’t visit links that come from so-called, none-censoring search engines and believe everything you see as truth?
Your own discernment should be centre stage.
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richard
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Been trying our presearch, useful is down the side is a list of other search engines you can quickly flick thru for other results. The rewards is a gimmick best ignored.
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Auntie Vaxina
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Censorship by any other name is still censorship…welcome to yet another slippery slope.
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Carbon Bigfoot
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I sometimes get confused and I see many of you do as well. DuckDuckGo is a Browser not a search engine. I believe that DDG uses the old Yahoo search engine although I have never confirmed that. The reason I say that DDG still prioritizes liberal posts on many searches. Maybe our colleague Herb Rose has an explanation or more clarity. Hey Herb how is Slatington?
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Herb Rose
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Hi Carbon,
Have no idea. Computers are designed to drive me crazy (short trip).
Herb
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MoffityBoffity
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There is a simple difference between a search engine and a browser. A search engine is a program that identifies items in an index or database corresponding to specific keywords and other factors. In contrast, a browser is an interface that allows users to browse between different web pages.
Users use browsers to use search engines to view web pages. For example, you may have searched for ‘search engine vs browser’ on a search engine like Google to get to this article, and you may be viewing it on a browser such as Google Chrome.
Search engines
Google is the most popular search engine, followed by Bing. But what are search engines, and how do they work?
Search engines allow people to find information through web searches. Search engines crawl the web and create an index of pages ranked in search engine results pages (SERPs) based on quality and relevance. The index of a search engine is essentially a massive library of web pages that it fetches results from.
Users can use a search engine by typing in a keyword like “buy dog food” and see top pages for that keyword. The order of the pages shown in SERPs is based on an extensive list of criteria, or “ranking factors,” that search engines like Google use to determine a page’s quality and relevance at any given moment.
Popular search engines include: Google, Bing, Baidu, and Yahoo!.
Browsers
A web browser is an application used on various devices to view pages. There are many browsers to choose from. The most popular browsers is Google Chrome.
Web browsers allow people to access the internet and experience different pages. When users click or type in a specific URL into a web browser, the web browser finds the content from a website’s server and then displays the page.
The way the web content is displayed on a web browser depends on the specific device a user has. Web browsers are used on various devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones – all of which display different layouts.
Popular browsers include: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
The bottom line
A web browser and search engine are not the same thing, but they work together closely. Search engines are for searching, web browsers is for browsing. A user needs a browser to use a search engine, and a search engine needs a browser to be accessed by users.
To improve your search engine positioning, it’s essential to optimize your website for SEO. Arguably, the most crucial part of SEO is consistently posting high-quality content. No amount of “technical SEO optimization” will save a website with poor quality content.
Written by Philip Ghezelbash
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WhokittyBwokitty
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SEO. Search engine optimization.
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Howdy
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DDG is a search engine, that like other major searches, has it’s own web crawler (the thing that actually checks websites for content). This makes DDG a search engine in it’s own right. It also references Bing too, and Apple maps, as far as I can tell.
Also comes as built in search engine choice for browsers, and is available as a phone browser app.
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Sacha
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There is a great interview with Dr. Robert Epstein on Joe Rogan about this. Robert Epstein is quite the expert. The takeaway for me was to use the Brave browser and the Brave search engine.
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Hans
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It is now known as Duckducknogo.ru.
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