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]
| Name | Notes | Open Source? | Country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brave Search | Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored | No | USA |
| Presearch | Private, decentralized, claims to be uncensored | Yes[6] | USA |
| Yandex | Russian company, helps to circumvent Western propaganda | No | Russia |
| DuckDuckGo | Upholds user privacy, but censors Russian news outlets[2][4] | No | USA |
| Google Search | No respect for user privacy, censors on behalf of the US imperialist national security state | No | USA |
References
- ↑ "Top 10 Search Engines In The World (2022 Update)".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kevin Reed (2020-11-04). "Google admits to censoring the World Socialist Web Site" WSWS.
- ↑ Tom Parker (2022-03-11). "DuckDuckGo Announces Mass Censorship of 'Russian Disinformation'"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo Will Censor Sites ‘Associated With Russian Disinformation’". Vision Times.
- ↑ Tom Parker. "Brave Search and Presearch say they don’t censor search results" Reclaim The Net.
- ↑ https://presearch.org/about