{"id":22528,"date":"2022-03-11T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T03:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=22528"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T06:28:42","slug":"and-just-like-that-duckduckgo-becomes-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/and-just-like-that-duckduckgo-becomes-google\/","title":{"rendered":"And Just Like That, DuckDuckGo Becomes Google"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One Time Free Search Engine Now Down-Ranks Conservative Content \u2013 Bans Gateway Pundit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jim Hoft<\/a> Published March 10, 2022 at 4:26pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This morning we received this email from a Gateway Pundit reader:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi Jim,<\/p>

I don\u2019t now if you\u2019re aware of it but it appears that duckduckgo is now filtering out your website. I switched over to their android app back in 2020 and I could just type in \u201cthegatewaypundit.com\u201d and your site would be the first to come up.
Last week I noticed it wouldn\u2019t come up at all anymore unless I add the www. In front of it. This morning I noticed even if I type the whole thing now, it doesn\u2019t come up at all.
I just tested the duckduckgo.com search using chrome and searching on www.thegatewaypundit.com<\/a> does not return your site at all.
As I\u2019m sure you are \u2013 getting a bit sick of this.<\/p>

Best,
Kevin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks Kevin, yes we are. Later today we did a search on gatewaypundit on DuckDuckGo to see what we get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you search for The Gateway Pundit<\/a> on DuckDuckGo they do not even list the front page of our website in their search engine.
And they include the Wikipedia slander and every other major hit piece on The Gateway Pundit instead.
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We have been disappeared. Despite having millions of readers a day the top articles that pop up for Gateway Pundit include hit pieces that had no traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What adds insult to injury is that the search engines and Big Tech demons will allow knock-off sites to steal our content word-for-word, including photos and video and that is OK. That is approved. This is the evil we are up against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today Breitbart posted a report on DuckDuckGo.  They have become Google.  They are actively censoring conservative content that does not fit their world view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Via Breitbart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popular privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, commonly considered an alternative to Google, has announced that it will be \u201cdown-ranking\u201d sites associated with \u201cdisinformation,\u201d along with adding \u201cinformation boxes\u201d to \u201chighlight quality information.\u201d The announcement received widespread backlash from DuckDuckGo supporters, who view the changes as adopting the censorship policies of the Masters of the Universe.<\/p>

In a recent Twitter post, the CEO of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced that the company would be downranking \u201csites associated with disinformation,\u201d which has been a popular tactic by Google for years to reduce user access to content it considers objectionable.<\/p>

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg tweeted about the decision, stating that it was an effort to reduce Russian disinformation online. \u201cLike so many others I am sickened by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine\ufe0f,\u201d Weinberg stated, adding: \u201cAt DuckDuckGo, we\u2019ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>

Weinberg goes on to say that DuckDuckGo will also be placing news modules and information boxes at the top of certain search results to highlight \u201cquality information for rapidly unfolding topics.\u201d This was a method used by many search engines and social media sites during the coronavirus pandemic to push official government narratives and information \u2014 that regularly changed drastically \u2014 to internet users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Here are Weinberg\u2019s tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.<\/p>— Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) March 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>