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I made the switch from DDG to Startpage.com the day when Bing/DDG censored "tank man" results on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, haven't looked back.

I do miss the !bangs, so I have a browser shortcut to access those when I need them.

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Startpage.com uses Google results, which besides having become kinda useless, have their own issue with censorship [0]

[0] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html

Google is also censoring a large list of search terms when used in combination with reddit. For example, you'll get zero results for "site:reddit.com underage".

How did you discover this? Any more examples?

I was trying to find information about a recent scandal and was surprised that I couldn't find any discussion on reddit. Restricting the results to reddit.com made it clear what was going on. These search terms are not censored on Yandex.

It seems that they've recently removed some search terms from the blacklist. If I remember correctly, the terms I had searched originally were "qanon" and "pizzagate" , but those are no longer censored. "pedo" and "jailbait" still trigger the censor though.

I find it interesting that to this day, a search for the phrase “Bing/DDG censored 'tank man' results on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square“ returns very few results in DDG, but several pages in Google.

I would not cite this as an example of why to use one search engine over another. It's a good example of why to use more than one search engine.

Too privacy-conscious for DuckDuckGo? That's next level trend setting.

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