Users upset DuckDuckGo down-ranks sites associated with Russian disinformation

I have stopped using this search engine as it can’t be trusted any longer. Such an awful precedent. Do people even think of the potential for abuse here and the total arbitrary nature of it all?<p>How long now befits motivated groups pressure them into down-ranking content they don’t like?

DuckDuckGo has thrown in the towel on neutrality, and has decided the US media organizations which lied about WMDs in Iraq among a cavalcade of other errors occasioning real world consequences are now the arbiters of truth.<p>It&#x27;s baffling the CEO of the company has absolutely no idea why his own customers even use his service.<p>They don&#x27;t want slightly-less-bad Google.

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You&#x27;ve got to be kidding me! Neutrality is just as important as privacy for a search engine.<p>DuckDuckGo was doing a good job building trust for years and just threw all of that away. This was their edge and now they are simply a worse Google instead of being an alternative.

So basically, DuckDuckGo decided to censor search results based on its decision of what is or isn&#x27;t misinformation. This tendency is extremely dangerous.

Brave Search has been gradually improving and I&#x27;m pleased with the quality of their results as of late. This is the final push I needed to abandon DDG.

DDG is now dead to me.