Techdirt Has Again Been Removed from Bing and (Mostly) DuckDuckGo

Going by the number of hits Google displays on the first search results page is really not clever. That number is notoriously unreliable.

When I did the same Google search, Google told me on page 1 there were "104,000 results". And in fact, when I clicked myself through all the results for site:techdirt.com, the list stops at 400. After that there was ... nothing.

Neither "400" nor "94,900" nor "104,000" has anything to do with anything.

You'd expect a site like Techdirt to be a little more clued up about Google's results displays.

I don't particularly like Techdirt, but DuckDuckGo's penchant for inheriting censorship from Bing [1] (and also doing it on its own [2]) is really disappointing.

I think the Tor Browser folks (who obviously disklike censorship) should look into replacing it as the default search engine. The best (free) candidate for now is probably BraveSearch [3].

[1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/microsofts-bing-censors-tank-man

[2]: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/duckduckgo-slammed-f...

[3]: https://search.brave.com/