<story><title>DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”</title><url>https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HeckFeck</author><text>For me, this move by DDG will have the opposite effect of what is intended.&lt;p&gt;I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling what I access &amp;quot;for &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; own good&amp;quot;. Such dirty tactics are insulting, even more so when delivered under a sneering benevolent guise.&lt;p&gt;As if they have perfect knowledge of my motives and wishes. What if I&amp;#x27;m genuinely curious as to how the Russian media is presenting this war? They must have access to this perfect knowledge if they are fit to decide which news sources are &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot;!</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>I guess this did not age well:&lt;p&gt;“[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” @matthewde_silva quotes 
@yegg&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;DuckDuckGo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1114524914227253249&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;DuckDuckGo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1114524914227253249&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, they probably do not realize that they will have to start with Twitter if to be consistent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crayboff</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been waffling between whether or not I think this is a good thing. I am curious on your thoughts:&lt;p&gt;A lot of malicious actors have learned how to game the search ranking algorithms by making carefully crafted lies that are easily spread as truths online quickly. They are able to get their fake news to spread (and this rank higher) in ways that legitimate sources can&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Most people only ever look at the first page of results when searching for answers, and, let&amp;#x27;s be honest, take those answers for the truth.&lt;p&gt;If you were a search engine provider and knew that viral, fake stories were able to do that, wouldn&amp;#x27;t not taking action also be making a decision about what you can and can&amp;#x27;t see? Inaction, in this case, would be tacit approval.&lt;p&gt;Also you can still search for stories about how Russia is presenting the war, but you have to specifically look for it</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”</title><url>https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HeckFeck</author><text>For me, this move by DDG will have the opposite effect of what is intended.&lt;p&gt;I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling what I access &amp;quot;for &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; own good&amp;quot;. Such dirty tactics are insulting, even more so when delivered under a sneering benevolent guise.&lt;p&gt;As if they have perfect knowledge of my motives and wishes. What if I&amp;#x27;m genuinely curious as to how the Russian media is presenting this war? They must have access to this perfect knowledge if they are fit to decide which news sources are &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot;!</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>I guess this did not age well:&lt;p&gt;“[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” @matthewde_silva quotes 
@yegg&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;DuckDuckGo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1114524914227253249&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;DuckDuckGo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1114524914227253249&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, they probably do not realize that they will have to start with Twitter if to be consistent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8note</author><text>What I really want is to have a setting where I can turn these kinds of filters on and off, or to different&amp;#x2F;customized priorities.&lt;p&gt;Search is a tool for me to use: give me better control of the results that I can get. Choosing between different ranking algorithms would be wonderful too, to skip around different SEO strategies</text></comment>