Comments on: According to Google; according to DuckDuckGo

By: Mike-SMO

Mike-SMO — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 04:11:21 +0000

Never trust what is presented to you by the media. The “radical” sites at least give a hint of what you should look for and verify. Google and the Democratic Media give you prepared and filtered “Narrative”, most commonly without a hint of any reality.

“Journalism” is dead. If you look to the Media for “News”, you are a fool. The Media information about Rittenhouse, vaccines, inflation, China, etc is all “Narrative” with no intent to inform. Digging through the chatter is annoying, but there is no other way to have a clue about what is going on. If you care, look around.

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:48:13 +0000

Witness my apocalypse. It is pretty good.

By: CBI

CBI — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:30:20 +0000

My experience as a research scientist comparing DuckDuckGo to Google exactly matches Wendy’s statement: on many highly technical–and strictly non-political–searches, Google does better. This is also true at times for somewhat esoteric searches. That said, DDG does better or as well as the Goog, and remains my first (and default) choice for searches

Indigo Red: I would say that Google is very much “left”-leaning, while DDG is much more neutral. It only seems “right” because it doesn’t (at least as actively) discriminate against “right” sources *or* concepts.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:18:12 +0000

@ Faith2014 > ” Do they still teach addressing 2 objections when teaching research papers?”

I suspect they no longer teach research at all.

By: Wendy Laubach

Wendy Laubach — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 20:47:27 +0000

I use DuckDuckGo by default. There are a few types of highly technical searches on which Google seems to deliver better results, but they’re strictly non-political questions. Even on those, as time goes on DDG seems to be catching up.

By: Faith2014

Faith2014 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:29:09 +0000

This has been the case for as long as I can remember. It’s not just news, but also if you want to get the other side of any social issue. You can go over 10 pages in and still not find an accurate description of what the other side thinks and why.

I miss that about the old yahoo. In the beginning, they would have a social topic, eg guns, and have both pro and con accessible.

This further serves to isolate and make ‘extremist’ our views. Infuriating. It’s the youth I worry about in this respect. They’re growing up with the one-sided view. Do they still teach addressing 2 objections when teaching research papers?

By: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup » Pirate's Cove

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup » Pirate's Cove — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:29:01 +0000

[…] neo-neocon highlights different searches on Google and DuckDuckGo […]

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 05:54:08 +0000

Once I searched for something political on Bing and I got the expected left-wing propaganda on the first few pages of results. But … It was nothing but that for many pages before something useful and exactly on point showed up. OK, it’s a little worse than usual; then I noticed it.

Many of the links on those first 5 or 6 pages were the same worthless links repeated over and over. Maybe Bing got paid for those placements. But for news items?

Can’t remember what the search was. I ticked me off enough that I wrote it up as a complaint/nastygram and sent it to the Bing team.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 04:09:32 +0000

JmNorCal,

“Goolag”… I like it!

By: geoffb

geoffb — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:41:13 +0000

WKOW, Madison WI. Progressively truthy.