Duck Duck Go liberal bias

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 14:52:37 | Updated at 2024-11-21 20:00:36 5 hours ago

Duck Duck Go liberal bias
11/21/2024 | Wallace T.

Posted on 11/21/2024 6:47:59 AM PST by Wallace T.

This morning, I used duckduckgo to do a search for Trump's pick for Secretary of Transportation. This is a relatively noncontroversial appointment. Sean Duffy, a Fox News contributor and former Congressman from Wisconsin, was chosen. The first 17 picks were from liberal websites (CNN, AP, NBC, MSN, NPR, CBS, BBC, Reuters, Washington Post, USA Today, MSN, MSN, Politico, New York Times, MSN, Politico, MSN). It was not until the 18th pick that a conservative website (Redstate) came up.

The search results were no better than Google, in fact even worse, as the 11th pick there was from a neutral site (Waste Dive, a trade publication).

TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Reference
KEYWORDS: legacymedia; liberalbias; searchengines

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The issue of liberal bias in search engines, even ones that advertise privacy.

1 posted on 11/21/2024 6:47:59 AM PST by Wallace T.

To: Wallace T.

DuckDuckGo’s search results come from over 400 sources, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, and Yandex. DuckDuckGo also uses its own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, and crowdsourced sites like Wikipedia. Most are on the left

2 posted on 11/21/2024 6:50:21 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )

To: Wallace T.

I’ve noticed that as well.....search results are almost identical to google

3 posted on 11/21/2024 6:51:52 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)

To: Wallace T.

All of the search engines are left-wing propaganda. It amazes me that there are no right-wing created search engines.

4 posted on 11/21/2024 6:52:16 AM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe

To: Wallace T.

DuckDuckGo never claimed to be right-leaning or neutral. It only claims to help block the tracking of your activity by advertisers.

5 posted on 11/21/2024 6:52:22 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)

To: V_TWIN

6 posted on 11/21/2024 6:52:28 AM PST by 38special (The government is ruining our country!)

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