Maybe the CEO can jump on here again and give us a bunch of back-peddling double talk about how they’re misunderstood, as when they were caught censoring news results.
I no longer trust DDG and switched to Kagi. Whether that’s better for privacy I’m not sure but at least their business is driven by user payments and not ads.
That my quoted search terms don’t get blatantly ignored was actually the impetus to move.
It is simply not true that we have censored anything. I realize I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter, but I subsequently put out a clarification tweet[1] and then we made this help page with a much clearer (and detailed) explanation of how our news rankings work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne.... This is not "back-peddling"; it is the ground truth of what is actually going on with our news results.
[1] "We are not ranking based on any political agenda or my (or anyone else's) personal political opinions. We are also not assessing any individual news stories." https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515637392190935041
I can't speak to the rest of the parent post but regularly experience my quoted searches being ignored and similarly when I don't want something using the correct syntax to exclude it the exact term I want to exclude us top and f the list. Very annoying.
> Maybe the CEO can jump on here again and give us a bunch of back-peddling double talk about how they’re misunderstood, as when they were caught censoring news results.
I must have missed this, what's this about censoring news?
I believe they're referring to when DDG announced they'd be doing something along the lines of deranking results that are pro-Russian, in context of the Ukraine-Russian war.
I no longer trust DDG and switched to Kagi. Whether that’s better for privacy I’m not sure but at least their business is driven by user payments and not ads.
That my quoted search terms don’t get blatantly ignored was actually the impetus to move.