DuckDuckGo censors results


  1. Posts : 198
    Windows 10 Pro x64
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    DuckDuckGo censors results


    Of all the search engines, I'd always imagined Google + Bing to be more censorious than DuckDuckGo - indeed Google gets millions of requests a year to not list pirate material. For some reason, I thought DDG more liberal - wrong !

    Today, something jogged my memory and I did a DDG search for a password cracker I used about 20 years ago (note - I am not trying to hack any pc). DDG returned this

    DuckDuckGo censors results-censor.png

    The same search on Google + Bing just returned the usual urls.

    Weird eh ?

    [ I blanked out the software name to not encourage others ]
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  2. Posts : 3,356
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    badcrc said:
    Of all the search engines, I'd always imagined Google + Bing to be more censorious than DuckDuckGo - indeed Google gets millions of requests a year to not list pirate material. For some reason, I thought DDG more liberal - wrong!
    I've used Google Search for years and have never noticed censoring problems. It often does go too far astray from the requested topic, though.
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  3. Posts : 6,855
    22H2 64 Bit Pro
       #3

    Is All Regions selected here?

    DuckDuckGo Settings

    Out of interest do you get better results here?

    For search query:

    password ******* site:sourceforge.net


    I get plenty of results using start.duckduckgo.com

    Maybe try a search with browser addons disabled just in case something is messing with search results.
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