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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> | 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> | ||
== | 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">{{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> | ||
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> | |||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+ | |+Search engine recommendations | ||
!Name | !Name | ||
! | !Recommended? (unofficial recommendations, up for debate) | ||
!Notes | !Notes | ||
! | |||
|- | |- | ||
|[https://search.brave.com Brave Search] | |[https://search.brave.com Brave Search] | ||
| | |Yes | ||
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored | |Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored | ||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
|[https://www.presearch.org Presearch] | |[https://www.presearch.org Presearch] | ||
|Yes | |Yes | ||
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored | |Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored | ||
| | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
|DuckDuckGo | |DuckDuckGo | ||
|No | |No | ||
|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> | |||
|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=": | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
|Google Search | |Google Search | ||
|No | |No | ||
|No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state | |||
|No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state | | | ||
|} | |} | ||
== References == | == References == | ||