<story><title>DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU</title><url>https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-is-now-a-default-search-engine-option-on-android-in-the-eu/343073/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dleslie</author><text>As an illusory example only, and definitely not as an endorsement, and chosen only because it is the extremes of acceptable speach that are most likely to be censured; consider these search results for &amp;quot;Daily Stormer&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=daily+stormer&amp;amp;oq=daily+stormer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=daily+stormer&amp;amp;oq=daily+storm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?q=daily+stormer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?q=daily+stormer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DDG provides the link to the site as their first result; Google provides links to information about the site.&lt;p&gt;Again, I am not endorsing the site; it is simply an obvious example of search result differentiation between DDG and Google.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&amp;gt; but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to see that many things are not censored away in comparison to Bing and Google (political correctness, copyright, nsfw etc. etc.).&lt;p&gt;I am not aware that there is a censorship of things that are deemed &amp;#x27;politically incorrect&amp;#x27; by either bing or google, and Yandex does comply with European copyright law and other EU legislation like the right-to-be-forgotten.</text></item><item><author>therealmarv</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s somehow funny to see that Bing search results are so successful when packaged with privacy in mind into DuckDuckGo. I don&amp;#x27;t like bing search results, especially for Europe. They are just bad for many local things.
The only other search engine beside Google which is interesting and surprising for me is maybe Yandex. It&amp;#x27;s also not as good as Google in (most of) Europe but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to see that many things are not censored away in comparison to Bing and Google (political correctness, copyright, nsfw etc. etc.). I&amp;#x27;m happy there is an alternative with different culture and jurisdiction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>multiplegeorges</author><text>Google knows that when I type &amp;#x27;rails&amp;#x27; into their search box I mean Ruby on Rails and gives me relevant results, instead of railroad tracks or hand rails.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not a big leap to think they&amp;#x27;d do that globally for extreme results like DS where most people want to know &lt;i&gt;about&lt;/i&gt; them and not actually visit the site.</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU</title><url>https://www.searchenginejournal.com/duckduckgo-is-now-a-default-search-engine-option-on-android-in-the-eu/343073/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dleslie</author><text>As an illusory example only, and definitely not as an endorsement, and chosen only because it is the extremes of acceptable speach that are most likely to be censured; consider these search results for &amp;quot;Daily Stormer&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=daily+stormer&amp;amp;oq=daily+stormer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=daily+stormer&amp;amp;oq=daily+storm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?q=daily+stormer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?q=daily+stormer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DDG provides the link to the site as their first result; Google provides links to information about the site.&lt;p&gt;Again, I am not endorsing the site; it is simply an obvious example of search result differentiation between DDG and Google.</text></item><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&amp;gt; but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to see that many things are not censored away in comparison to Bing and Google (political correctness, copyright, nsfw etc. etc.).&lt;p&gt;I am not aware that there is a censorship of things that are deemed &amp;#x27;politically incorrect&amp;#x27; by either bing or google, and Yandex does comply with European copyright law and other EU legislation like the right-to-be-forgotten.</text></item><item><author>therealmarv</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s somehow funny to see that Bing search results are so successful when packaged with privacy in mind into DuckDuckGo. I don&amp;#x27;t like bing search results, especially for Europe. They are just bad for many local things.
The only other search engine beside Google which is interesting and surprising for me is maybe Yandex. It&amp;#x27;s also not as good as Google in (most of) Europe but it&amp;#x27;s interesting to see that many things are not censored away in comparison to Bing and Google (political correctness, copyright, nsfw etc. etc.). I&amp;#x27;m happy there is an alternative with different culture and jurisdiction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>A stark difference. Is Google on the record about what their view is on this sort of thing?&lt;p&gt;I suppose the two scenarios that leap to mind are (1) Google is social engineering or (2) they have good reason to believe that nobody searching for the Daily Stormer actually wants to see the website. It&amp;#x27;d be interesting to know if there is a 3rd.</text></comment>