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Lets talk search engine censorship at a wide scale how do specific search engines rank search resualts (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by rob299@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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So after the Google anti trust situation that has occurred recently it got me wondering..

Do all major search engines censor resualts from independent sites? Let me define what I mean by censorship, if you were to search for some kind of content or news and Google never ever shows a site in the news results there is a chance of shadow banning. There also a chance that Google just doesn't know the site exists. but this isn't always the case.

the main question for this post however is this, how do specific search engines handle resualts? it's no secret Google is known for not doing search resualts on YouTube or Google too well for the user experience.

How do search engines like Bing, Yahoo, Google, Duckduckgo, metager, and others differenciate in their search rankings. Surely they aren't all moderating the exact same as Google, right? right..?

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There'll obviously be some differences. FYI ddg uses bing search results

[–] rob299@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I agree, what are some of them that are known by users of Lemmy? In particular when you compare larger search engines to each other.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In Korea and other countries Bing and DDG don't show anything when you search for PeerTube: https://jeena.net/notes/1391

[–] rob299@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Is this happening in the u.s? If not there might be a law for those countries making them hide it there. If you can, try searching for sepia search, its a sesrch engine for almost all peertube intances basically its as if peertube was youtube, do those countries show that?

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 11 months ago

In Korea my assumption is that it happens because there are NSFW PeerTube instances and in Korea porn is forbidden so Bing probably just blocks everything about PeerTube.

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago

Google sucks for drug-related harm reduction info but ddg/Bing are better