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Do you think that truth can ever be the new trend.
Google is our friend, when in doubt "check it out"
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Google actively hides the truth. Use Duckduckgo or another.
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Unfortunately, "truth" is in the mind of the searcher. Many don't want the truth, they want their opinions confirmed. Google will return enough responses that you can usually find any "truth" you are looking for.
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I use duckduckgo but I never had a reason to question the results returned by google. |
"Lead me to those who seek the truth, and deliver me from those who’ve found it."
Many variations on this quote. |
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A while back, I was looking for a specific video that debunked an often claimed fallacy... I had to go 10-12 pages deep to find it, even though I put in a specific request. The first 8-9 pages were articles citing the false information... |
I use google and duckduckgo and I usually find the same "main" results on the first page of each. The search engine you use isn't the issue. The question you ask is the issue.
If you type in: Is climate change is a hoax You'll find conspiracy websites that will feed you all the hoax information. The algorithm is picking up on the words "climate change hoax" and spitting out your preferred propaganda. If you type in Climate Change science You'll find more actual data from scientific sources, but also some sites proclaiming that it is /not/ science. If you type in "climate change definition" You'll get a bunch of dictionary results, and a few encyclopedia results. You'll get these results no matter which search engine you use. Learn what to ask for. That requires critical thinking. Not everyone has it, it's not really a natural human trait. It has to be learned. |
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Neither Google nor DuckDuckGo know what the truth is, they only know what seems to be most relevant and most common. A couple of months ago they returned several articles reporting a certain person's death. Come to find out, they weren't dead. The articles were relevant and they were common but they weren't the truth. |
Google and Bing actively suppress results that don't fit their narrative. Duck Duck Go used to not do that, but since the whole Ukraine controversy, they have also started to filter results. See this 36 second video for details: Duck Duck GONE
The upside is that DDG at least still respects your privacy. The only unfiltered options are search engines like Brave, but they are inferior in quality IMHO. |
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Google Manipulates Search Results |
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Or am I missing something? |
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The article made claims that google denies. The article provided search results comparing google with Duckduckgo but while the results were not identical I did not notice a significant difference. I expect results from different search engines to be different. I prefer that the search engine block spam. I would hope that results are ordered to give me relevant, factual data from known sources ahead of crackpot theories from so.eone's basement or scam pages that are loaded with unintelligible text to try to get on a results page. As far as I can tell, google and duckduckgo are doing just that. |
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