#DUCKDUCKGO SEARCH RESULTS

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has called out previous report regarding their private search engine not showing popular piracy websites on search results. Anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results. — Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) April 17, 2022 “We are not "purging" YouTube-dl or The Pirate Bay and they both have actually been continuously available in our results if you search for them by name (which most people do). TorrentFreak had updated the said report citing a DuckDuckGo spokesperson blaming the issue to Bing search data which the DuckDuckGo is based upon. DuckDuckGo shedding light to this matter, YugaTech has observed today that a search for “site:thepiratebay.org” now yields a result showing the website link, as compared to last week’s query when no results came up. Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo removes over 2000 “bangs” or search shortcuts that includes major pirate websites The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies among others. According to TorrentFreak, they noticed that several popular pirate sites were no longer showing up on DuckDuckGo’s search results, regardless of location. For example, upon searching for “site:thepiratebay.org” that supposed to return results DuckDuckGo has indexed for the main domain name, however, there were none. Read more in our articles including "DuckDuckGo clarifies: We are not "purging" any media outlets from results" and "Piracy websites bid goodbye to DuckDuckGo’s search results".