The owner of DuckDuckGo informed the world that he down ranks sites that don’t say what he likes about Russia. Upon hearing this Larry Sanger, the founder of Wikipedia and a self described conservatarian decide to see if he could find any alternatives that provided unbiased search results.
He looked at Brave and Quant and a few others and describes what he learned and why he thinks he didn’t find any that were both unbiased and competent. Interesting.
I use Brave as my browser and DuckDuckGo as my search engine. If DuckDuckGo is biased it’s still better than Google because it doesn’t track my every keystroke and sell the tracking to Amazon and Pepsi Cola.
But I do confess I would love to have an honest search engine. As Sanger discusses, a useful search engine would be one that you could program yourself. It would be easy to provide the user with sliders for ideology, nationalities, source size and ratings.
Until then, I do what I can with what I’ve got.
I just started using Brave.
Despite any imperfections I still think using Brave as my browser and DuckDuckGo as my search engine in preferable to Google. It would be nice to have a search engine that wasn’t biased against the Right but I’ll take it one thing at a time.
With DDG, at least I can perform a search without having targeted ads popping up on my computer within the next 1/2 hour.
DuckDuckGo is without a doubt better than Google. It is disappointing that they are amenable to Leftist pressure. But until something better comes along I’ll use it.