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| − | '''DuckDuckGo''' is a [[search engine]]. | + | '''DuckDuckGo''' is a [[search engine]]. It emphasises that it doesn't track users, but was exposed as tracking all the sites its users made from its Android app in 2020.<ref>https://www.techworm.net/2020/07/duckduckgo-browser-track-website.html</ref> The CEO commented that "I want to be clear that we did not and have not collected any personal information here."<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711597</ref> |
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| − | A June 2020 search for [[Wikispooks]] on Duckduckgo, gave Wikispooks as the first result, followed by a [[fact | + | A June 2020 search for [[Wikispooks]] on Duckduckgo, gave Wikispooks as the first result, followed by a "[[fact checker]]". A search on the independent media [[Off-Guardian]] gave a fact checker as first result, followed by an article from Off-Guardian. This would imply that either significant resources have been spent on influencing the search results, or that the management of DuckDuckgo has been pressured or taken over. |
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Revision as of 16:31, 4 July 2020
| A search engine that claims not to track its users |
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https://duckduckgo.com 
Owners: Duck Duck Go, Inc.
Constitutes: search engine
DuckDuckGo is a search engine. It emphasises that it doesn't track users, but was exposed as tracking all the sites its users made from its Android app in 2020.[1] The CEO commented that "I want to be clear that we did not and have not collected any personal information here."[2]
Contents
Subject-specific De-ranking?
As of January 2018, a page from ISGP was the #8 hit on DuckDuckGo for the search term "Dutroux Affair".[3] Several other search engines such as Yahoo[4], Bing[5], Yandex[6] and Gigablast[7] also included it in their top 10. By contrast, neither Google not StartPage returned any hits from the ISGP site in the top 100.
7th floor group
Wikispooks was #30 hit for the search term "7th floor group" at DuckDuckGo, which listed it at #30,[8] in January 2018. This is an interesting contrast with Ask.com[9], Bing[10], Ecosia,[11] Google[12], Yahoo[13] and Yahoo)[14].
Compromised by fact-checkers
A June 2020 search for Wikispooks on Duckduckgo, gave Wikispooks as the first result, followed by a "fact checker". A search on the independent media Off-Guardian gave a fact checker as first result, followed by an article from Off-Guardian. This would imply that either significant resources have been spent on influencing the search results, or that the management of DuckDuckgo has been pressured or taken over.
References
- ↑ https://www.techworm.net/2020/07/duckduckgo-browser-track-website.html
- ↑ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711597
- ↑ http://archive.is/jef5X
- ↑ http://archive.is/YvvFI
- ↑ http://archive.is/yQpNg
- ↑ http://archive.is/TJpue
- ↑ http://archive.is/Q9lEF
- ↑ http://archive.is/UWZiZ
- ↑ http://archive.is/SerFN
- ↑ http://archive.is/B0PPM
- ↑ http://archive.is/KXewb
- ↑ http://archive.is/e0KEk
- ↑ http://archive.is/dyEeK
- ↑ http://archive.is/X3cRY
