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What makes you trust Kagi more than DDG? Is their crawling/ranking algo open source?

No, I only have their word to go on, but at least they explicitly say that they are avoiding censorship[0], while DDG are quite open with it.

I also did some smell tests by searching controversial topics, and Kagi does seem to present a more mixed bag of sources than DDG and Google on the first page of results.

[0] https://kagi.com/faq#censoring

How is a mixed bag of sources a good thing? A collection of reputable sources would be better. There's no such thing as neutral however breitbart and fox news (both of whom I've seen come up in searching) actively spread disinformation however because they're news sites aligned with the american right downranking them is a political statement despite the list of lies they've spread.

Theres no winning as half the people want to be lied to and it has so obviously been weaponized.

> actively spread disinformation however because they're news sites aligned with the american right

If you think disinformation comes from one side you have been brainwashed good

If you think the distribution of disinformation is uniform across both sides, you've also been brainwashed good. There is plenty of peer-reviewed research on this, but here are two that I found after brief searching:

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/right-and-left...

https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud

Love the strawman. I reply to your claim that its binary by saying its obviously not and you shift goalposts by talking distributions which was never the point.

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