Editing Search engine

A '''search engine''' allows internet users to find information based on queries, usually text queries. Google Search is the most used search engine,<ref>{{News citation|title=Top 10 Search Engines In The World (2022 Update)|url=https://www.reliablesoft.net/top-10-search-engines-in-the-world/}}</ref> but it is heavily censored and manipulated by the [[Imperialism|imperialist]] [[United States of America|United States]].<ref name=":0">{{News citation|journalist=Kevin Reed|date=2020-11-04|title=Google admits to censoring the World Socialist Web Site|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html|newspaper=[[WSWS]]}}</ref>

== Comparisons ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Name
!Open Source?
!Country of origin 
!Notes
|-
|[https://search.brave.com Brave Search]
|No
|USA
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|-
|[https://www.presearch.org Presearch]
|Yes<ref>https://presearch.org/about</ref>
|USA
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|-
|[https://searx.space/ Searx]
|Yes<ref>https://github.com/searx/searx</ref>
|Variety
|A meta search engine (pulls data from others) which has several instances across the world.
|-
|[http://www.baidu.com/ Baidu]
|No
|China
|Chinese company, mostly only Chinese-language websites are indexed
|-
|[http://yandex.com Yandex]
|No
|Russia
|Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
|-
|DuckDuckGo
|No
|USA
|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":1">{{News citation|title=Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo Will Censor Sites ‘Associated With Russian Disinformation’|url=https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/03/10/duckduckgo-information-censorship-russia-ukraine-war.html|newspaper=Vision Times}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|journalist=[[Richard Medhurst]]|date=2022-03-14|title=Bye Bye Freedom: DuckDuckGo Censors Russian Search Results|url=https://youtu.be/ZXcyymRpE3g}}</ref>
|-
|Google Search
|No
|USA
|No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state<ref name=":0" />
|}

== History ==
DuckDuckGo was founded in 2008 as a privacy-focused competitor to popular search engines such as Google Search. For a time it maintained a reputation helping to circumvent censorship, but following the [[2022 Russo-Ukranian conflict|2022 Russo-Ukraine conflict]], DuckDuckGo violated its own neutrality and began censoring Russian news outlets.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Tom Parker|date=2022-03-11|title=DuckDuckGo Announces Mass Censorship of 'Russian Disinformation'|url=https://www.eutimes.net/2022/03/duckduckgo-announces-mass-censorship-of-russian-disinformation/}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Tom Parker|title=Brave Search and Presearch say they don’t censor search results|url=https://reclaimthenet.org/brave-search-presearch-not-censor/|newspaper=Reclaim The Net}}</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:Computing]]