Remember when Google just gave you the proper search results when you typed a word or term into their search engine, and nothing else? Remember that's how they stole you away from Alta Vista, Yahoo, and other search engines?
We need another Google. Stat.
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@coffeegeek Not sure what you mean, thats really the only reason I **still** use google. I tried duck-duck-go and many of the alternatives and they just never give even remotely useful results for me. Google is pretty much spot on every time, so not really sure what you mean here.
Agreed.
I image searched for “southern flag bikini” on duck duck go. No dice.
I switched too google and fapped for good 5 minutes.
Only kinda joking
Oh wow I didnt know that. Up until now I used to think DDG was a pretty good entity looking out for us not tracking our data, stuff like that. But hearing they intentionally censor content as innocuous as images of the southern flag without any other indications of racism, lets just say that earned DDG a boycott from my side for sure (less to do with what they censored, i am not one who has any reason to subscribe to imagery representing southern pride myself).
I dare you too post a woman in a swastika bikini. They exist, but you’ll never find it
Not exactly equivelant. A swastika is an image that has no non-racist symbology. The southern flag is a symbol of southern pride. While it has been used as a racist symbol as well, no doubt, having legitimate non-racist symbolism means any sort of an outright ban from a search engine would be absurd.
That said, I'm not a fan if google banned that either (or any searchable content that isnt illegal like CSAM or something). But these arent equivalent comparisons.
Also not being able to find something in a search is not the same as censoring it. There are a lot of things i cant find with duck duck go that is clearly not censored. Where exactly did you find evidence suggesting duck duck go was explicitly censoring content to eliminate southern flags?
By the way to test the theory i just tried searching google images to find a swastika bikini. I had no trouble finding it:
