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Does anyone have an explanation for DuckDuckGo censoring the "tank man" image during the recent anniversary of Tiananmen square?

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https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1401216879293874185

"China banned DuckDuckGo in 2014 and we have no plans to change that. This image belongs in search results and never disappeared from our main page. For the image tab we mainly use Bing and they fixed the error. We’re looking to supplement w/ more sources."

They also mainly use bing for everything else.

That’s not really true — I put more on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528625

I just went and repeated all my google searches from this morning, and the only knowledge cards that I got were from Wikipedia and the rest of the results were ads or the "blue links." I'm a little confused if the instant answers/knowledge cards refers to a larger piece of the results that blends in?

So, what percentage of ddg's results for queries come from bing? like a ballpark estimate. Is it like 10%? 50%? 80%? Because in your answer you still carefully avoid giving any actual numbers.

I still say (by looking at the results for random queries) that ddg is is mostly bing, do you have any actual data to refute this?

Yeah I just did a side by side for a few of my most recent queries and as far as I could tell it was all Bing. Same results, same order.

Not opposed to it, just doesn't add up to the claim

No data to refute it because the 10 links are still from Bing. Their crawlers and indexes are only for the instant answers for very specific queries. For the other 99.99% of queries, it's just Bing.

Happy it bit them in the ass for the tank man image because they're constantly lying without lying about their complete reliance on Bing. Put differently, if Bing shuts down tomorrow, so does DDG.

DDG uses Bing's API for search.

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