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 |
| 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
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
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ https://presearch.org/about
- ↑ https://github.com/searx/searx
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo Will Censor Sites ‘Associated With Russian Disinformation’". Vision Times.
- ↑ Richard Medhurst (2022-03-14). "Bye Bye Freedom: DuckDuckGo Censors Russian Search Results"
- ↑ Tom Parker (2022-03-11). "DuckDuckGo Announces Mass Censorship of 'Russian Disinformation'"
- ↑ Tom Parker. "Brave Search and Presearch say they don’t censor search results" Reclaim The Net.