<story><title>Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-bay-domains-from-search-results-citing-dutch-court-order-211130/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Valakas_</author><text>DDG should change their name though. Seriously. Who wants to use such a ridiculous sounding search engine? AltaVista sounded good and had a meaning (seeing from above). Yahoo fine. Bing also ok. But duckduckgo seems like the most ridiculous name someone came up on a brainstorm meeting for search engine names. But then they did went with it.</text></item><item><author>concinds</author><text>Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Forget Chrome.&lt;p&gt;Google willingly interferes, in a heavy-handed way, with both search suggestions and search results, with both Google Search and YouTube. Just try to look up any topic on YouTube, and you&amp;#x27;ll have to get past the hundreds of mainstream media channels covering the event, before you actually find the original video. They artificially promote &amp;quot;authoritative sources&amp;quot; which are anything but, since they may be second-hand coverage of original videos that get buried in search results.&lt;p&gt;Google&amp;#x27;s results are not only manipulated by clever SEO people[0], but by employees[1], in direct contradiction to Sundar Pichai&amp;#x27;s sworn testimony. Some of that is very defendable. But there&amp;#x27;s zero transparency. Given their search monopoly, and that most people aren&amp;#x27;t aware that search results are manipulated, Google Search &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; the web. Websites that get delisted are presumed to have ceased to exist. Focusing on browsers (Firefox) is good, but no longer enough.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Switch to other engines. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search are the ones I trust, and there&amp;#x27;s tons more.&lt;p&gt;[0]: how many times have you tried looking for a machine&amp;#x27;s user manual, mistyped the model number, and somehow &amp;quot;found&amp;quot; a webpage with the manual for a product that didn&amp;#x27;t exist? and then modified the model number further and found more results from the same website, with relevant keywords and yet another incorrect model number? My understanding of SEO isn&amp;#x27;t good enough to know how they do that. I don&amp;#x27;t believe websites can dynamically alter their index to show up for so many typoed search queries.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@mikewacker&amp;#x2F;googles-manual-interventions-in-search-results-a3b0cfd3e26c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@mikewacker&amp;#x2F;googles-manual-interventions-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>They own duck.com and it redirects to their site. They should just adopt &amp;quot;duck.com&amp;quot; as their main brand, which will inevitably get shortened to &amp;quot;Duck&amp;quot; in everyday conversation.&lt;p&gt;Then we can turn it into a verb. &amp;quot;Go Duck &amp;lt;term&amp;gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They could even capitalize on the famous autocorrect substitutions: &amp;quot;Need an answer? Duck it!&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-bay-domains-from-search-results-citing-dutch-court-order-211130/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Valakas_</author><text>DDG should change their name though. Seriously. Who wants to use such a ridiculous sounding search engine? AltaVista sounded good and had a meaning (seeing from above). Yahoo fine. Bing also ok. But duckduckgo seems like the most ridiculous name someone came up on a brainstorm meeting for search engine names. But then they did went with it.</text></item><item><author>concinds</author><text>Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Forget Chrome.&lt;p&gt;Google willingly interferes, in a heavy-handed way, with both search suggestions and search results, with both Google Search and YouTube. Just try to look up any topic on YouTube, and you&amp;#x27;ll have to get past the hundreds of mainstream media channels covering the event, before you actually find the original video. They artificially promote &amp;quot;authoritative sources&amp;quot; which are anything but, since they may be second-hand coverage of original videos that get buried in search results.&lt;p&gt;Google&amp;#x27;s results are not only manipulated by clever SEO people[0], but by employees[1], in direct contradiction to Sundar Pichai&amp;#x27;s sworn testimony. Some of that is very defendable. But there&amp;#x27;s zero transparency. Given their search monopoly, and that most people aren&amp;#x27;t aware that search results are manipulated, Google Search &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; the web. Websites that get delisted are presumed to have ceased to exist. Focusing on browsers (Firefox) is good, but no longer enough.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Switch to other engines. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search are the ones I trust, and there&amp;#x27;s tons more.&lt;p&gt;[0]: how many times have you tried looking for a machine&amp;#x27;s user manual, mistyped the model number, and somehow &amp;quot;found&amp;quot; a webpage with the manual for a product that didn&amp;#x27;t exist? and then modified the model number further and found more results from the same website, with relevant keywords and yet another incorrect model number? My understanding of SEO isn&amp;#x27;t good enough to know how they do that. I don&amp;#x27;t believe websites can dynamically alter their index to show up for so many typoed search queries.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@mikewacker&amp;#x2F;googles-manual-interventions-in-search-results-a3b0cfd3e26c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@mikewacker&amp;#x2F;googles-manual-interventions-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CountDrewku</author><text>Nah HotBot and AskJeeves didn&amp;#x27;t have a problem back in the day. Google sounded just as ridiculous when it came out.</text></comment>