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== History ==
== 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" />
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>
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 20:19, 19 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
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[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 public posture of 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