NOTE:
I started using the following web search service a few weeks ago. It's not as fast as Google, but just as good 95% to 99% of the time. Google owns Blogspot.com, which I've used since 2008. Didn't realize Google was involved until a few years ago. I can't move my blogs away from Blogspot.com. But I do avoid Google searches whenever possible. They are consistently leftist-biased. And that's not good. An alternative I've been using for about three weeks, after giving up on DuckDuckGo (for me, it's now DuckDuckGone).
https://search.brave.com/
Ye Editor
Carefully Selected Quotes,
by Ye Editor
"One lone bastion had been DuckDuckGo, a search engine that ensured users their privacy and search results that were relatively unbiased.
However, on March 9, the CEO of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Weinberg, announced on Twitter that:
“Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create at DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search engine updates that down rank-size associated with Russian disinformation.”
The move by DuckDuckGo was only one in many made by social media platforms to reportedly clamp down on “disinformation” campaigns stemming from Russia.
And yet, you had to have been living under a rock to not have noticed the number of individuals complaining of censorship and reported removal of “misinformation” and “disinformation” from social media platforms in the last two years.
In fact, Google’s move to remove content they didn’t agree with cracked down in June 2019 when their algorithm replaced crowd sourcing with crowd control and removed nearly every article published on Mercola.com from the search engines.
The move by DuckDuckGo is yet another in a long list of censorship actions designed to keep you in the dark.
Essentially all search engines are censored as the majority of the small ones use Google’s search results.
The advantage of most Google alternatives is they are private and don’t steal your data.
My current absolute favorite browser is Brave and recently they have a new search engine that can be selected in their settings menu.
... DuckDuckGo has followed in the footsteps of other search engines and social media platforms by identifying its own brand of misinformation.
When voices are censored, humanity loses and fascism wins. In 2019, Pinterest banned me, and Google had erased most of my information from the search results.
In the following two years, I was forced to take down all my articles after they were online for just 48 hours. What makes me so dangerous?
... Instead of serving you quality search results, the new goal is to unite industry and government, forcing their beliefs on readers and manipulating your behavior and your future. Instead of crowdsourcing, Google began using crowd control.
... Considering Wikipedia’s history of bias, it’s not surprising that the online “encyclopedia” is Google’s chosen arbiter of expertise and credibility.
... The four companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple — spent $55 million on lobbying in 2018, which is just under double what they spent in 2016. Google could potentially also garner some protection or aid from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
... DuckDuckGo used to have a tenuous hold over unbiased results but has publicly announced its decision to relinquish it and cross over to join Google in the unrelenting effort to control your thoughts, behaviors and pocketbook.
Without access to independent journalism through search, it’s more important than ever to stay connected and share information across your network of friends and family."
