Today's google

What you think is "cool" probably smells like rancid s*it to any normal person.

Soon google will be even cooler. As in 'truth filter'. So cool, I won't touch it anymore.

joe

Where have you been for the last decade?

@google, why? (did I miss something?)

Apparently the last decade or two. Google is the atheists of "Don't be evil."

Just to be sure I got you right: Do you mean Google = 'good'?

In that case I wonder where you've been the last months. Google announced it would rank search results according to 'truth value'. That means they will decide what is the truth, and give their version of the 'truth' a higher position in your search's results.

Not something I'd be looking forward to.

joe

Amen

antithesis ^ | Does this help? (speelczechers!)------------------------+

I haven't used Google in, well, I've never used Google for searching.

I gave up on Google many years ago. They've been censoring stuff they don't like from their search results since 2009 if not before, to my certain knowledge. There are way better options out there. I quite like Majestic 12, which is distributed and thus much harder to compromise. But most of the time I'll just use duckduckgo.com which seems fine for run of the mill stuff at least.

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I thought duckduckgo was the anonymized un-cookied version of google?

'Majestic 12'? Google (duckduckgo) returned nothing but UFO's, so they must be truthfully existing, lol.

I have tried to use YaCy years ago, didn't work very well by then, but thanks for the lead, I think I'll give it a try.

joe

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:13:47 +0000, Joe Hey Gave us:

You don't get it.. Cookies or not, if *they* filter the "results"

I've been using IXQuick since someone here mentioned it a few months back. I haven't found it lacking.

I think you're getting mixed up with startpage.com

You are totally right. But then, I didn't say I use duckduckgo.com . He did, and I'm telling him that it's basically the same as google. Just as startpage iirc.

And I doubt it's really anonymized. I remember a 'reliable Swiss' company providing paid-for secure encryption services. Later it turned out that indeed they didn't send the unencrypted messages to the NSA, just 'only' the keys...

joe

I'm not clear. I thought search results have always been ranked. How can they not be ranked? They have to be presented in some order, no? This ranking is what you are calling censorship, no?