JamesCaruso
Staff member
To @John Farley ’s point above, I use Duck Duck Go as my search engine. But I still got the results @Dan Robinson described when I tried the two searches he mentioned as examples. Duck Duck Go is still a good alternative though, mainly for privacy reasons. They also seem to do less filtering of “disinformation.” I put that in quotes because I don’t necessarily want a tech company defining for me what’s “disinformation” and what is just an alternate opinion. I can decide for myself based on the source and based on what seems to be the consensus view. Regardless of individual political leanings, we should all be able to agree there is often a political bias when a tech company decides something is “disinformation.” I recall a situation where I did a Google search for a human rights situation in China, for example, and no matter how many letters I typed the auto-fill never completed the search text, but on Duck Duck Go it did. It seems that the type of thing Dan noted shows an increasingly narrow view that only the “experts” (mainstream media, government, academia) are credible sources and individuals with knowledge cannot be. If this were true, we may as well get rid of Wikipedia.