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].
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.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 16.4 ms ] threadI 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/
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.