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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>
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|Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets<ref name=":0" /><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>
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== 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 ==
== References ==

Revision as of 02:23, 15 March 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

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
Yandex No Russia Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
DuckDuckGo No USA Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets[2][4][5]
Google Search No USA No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state

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-Ukraine conflict, DuckDuckGo violated its own neutrality and began censoring Russian news outlets.[6][4]

In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.[7]

References