Search engine

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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,[1] but it is heavily censored and manipulated by the imperialist United States.[2]

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.[3][4]

In response, Brave Search and Presearch announced that they will refuse to censor search results.[5]

Comparison
Name Notes
Brave Search Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Presearch Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored
Yandex Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda
DuckDuckGo Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets[2][4]
Google Search No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state

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