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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>
== Comparisons ==
 
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)
!Open Source?
!Country of origin
!Notes
!Notes
!
|-
|-
|[https://search.brave.com Brave Search]
|[https://search.brave.com Brave Search]
|Yes
|No
|USA
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|
|-
|-
|[https://www.presearch.org Presearch]
|[https://www.presearch.org Presearch]
|Yes
|Yes<ref>https://presearch.org/about</ref>
|USA
|Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
|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
|DuckDuckGo
|No
|No
|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
|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
|Google Search
|No
|No
|No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state
|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 public posture of 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 ==
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Computing]]

Latest revision as of 14:45, 28 August 2022

A search engine allows internet users to find information based on queries, usually text queries. Google Search is the most used search engine,[1] but it is heavily censored and manipulated by the imperialist United States.[2]

Comparisons[edit | edit source]

Name Open Source? Country of origin Notes
Brave Search No USA Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Presearch Yes[3] USA Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Searx Yes[4] Variety A meta search engine (pulls data from others) which has several instances across the world.
Baidu No China Chinese company, mostly only Chinese-language websites are indexed
Yandex No Russia Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
DuckDuckGo No USA Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets[5][6]
Google Search No USA No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state[2]

History[edit | edit source]

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-Ukraine conflict, DuckDuckGo violated its public posture of neutrality and began censoring Russian news outlets.[7][5]

In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.[8]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Top 10 Search Engines In The World (2022 Update)".
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kevin Reed (2020-11-04). "Google admits to censoring the World Socialist Web Site" WSWS.
  3. ↑ https://presearch.org/about
  4. ↑ https://github.com/searx/searx
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo Will Censor Sites ‘Associated With Russian Disinformation’". Vision Times.
  6. ↑ Richard Medhurst (2022-03-14). "Bye Bye Freedom: DuckDuckGo Censors Russian Search Results"
  7. ↑ Tom Parker (2022-03-11). "DuckDuckGo Announces Mass Censorship of 'Russian Disinformation'"
  8. ↑ Tom Parker. "Brave Search and Presearch say they don’t censor search results" Reclaim The Net.
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