Technology
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You guys are overreacting. DDG said they would only down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. It's normal for search engines to downrank low-quality sites such as SEO spam.
yeah, this was pretty much the consensus in the thread on this on /r/stallmanwasright. kinda surprised to see so much less of that here.
DDG unfortunately is more concerned about profiting, down ranking what's told to do so, and what's more convenient for itself, and has great marketing. It's no better than Searx in that it's also meta search engine, just with better marketing. Well perhaps not as simple as that, but not that far either. Quoting someone:
From a delete Lemmy post:
https://lemmy.ml/post/43595/comment/22034
Besides, searx uses multiple sources, not just google, which you can enable disable on the settings, as a user of any instance, :)
Google and most other BigTech are member-partners of the WEF/World Economic Forum. If that forum was meant to do good, it makes little sense that individual companies would need to join a group to do good....and, anyway, they haven't! Walmart is one of the members and has a huge percentage of staff part-time because Walmart doesn't want to pay for their benefits.
Most of those companies in WEF mistreat citizens weither directly or indirectly. Here's the list: https://www.weforum.org/partners#S
when I put in very concise words and get distantly-related MSM B.S., i don't feel respected. My results were certainly filtered in order to shape opinion.