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Comment by cirno | Hacker News Reader

Since the Cliqz devs are here, and this engine is based in Germany, a question: does your search engine have any mechanisms for reporting abusive URLs (doxxing, targeted harassment, revenge porn, etc) beyond right-to-be-forgotten, or are you more a lassiez-faire, everything-goes kind of search company?

I noticed that your engine ranks some of the nastier sites on the internet far higher than any other search engine I've looked into.

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[Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz] Yes, there is a way to report such urls https://cliqz.com/en/report-url

We do have a list of blacklisted urls/domains mostly regarding adult topic (child porno etc). If you have noticed some bad sites in our results, please feel free to drop a line to our support team using link I provided

Thanks for the reply. A bit disappointed it only counts for extremely illegal content. There's a lot of really negative stuff out there that is blatantly false and manipulative (Ripoff Report, Tumblr callout posts, etc) and it's always a shame that this kind of negative toxicity gets promoted so high in SERPs.

I'd really like it if there were an ethical SERP that at least had some integrity with its results. Reporting factual unflattering statements is one thing (and ideal), but promoting libel feels really dirty, and so far Cliqz seems to be the worst at that of any search engines I've used, and your reporting link seems as though Cliqz is okay with that.

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