Similarly, 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). Like Goodman, Weinberg claimed site operators are sparingly used and downplayed it as an issue: The Pirate Bay was completely suppressed this weekend, but now DuckDuckGo at least shows the domain as a result. “Some of the other sites routinely change domain names and have spotty availability, and so naturally come in and out of the index but should be available as of now.” The Verge was able to observe these changes: a Friday search for “site: spider-man” gave zero results (including the absence of the main site), but today, the search does at least yield the website - but not anything within. “We are having issues with our site: operator, and not just for these sites,” wrote Goodman. The Verge was told the new behavior is not targeted to piracy-linked sites. We reached out to DuckDuckGo about the issue and received this response from senior communications manager Allison Goodman:Īfter looking into this, our records indicate that YouTube-dl and The Pirate Bay were never removed from our search results when you searched for them directly by name or URL, which the vast majority of people do (it’s rare for people to use site operators or query operators in general). Our site: operator (which hardly anyone uses) is having issues which we are looking into.- Gabriel Weinberg April 17, 2022 Similarly, 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).
Weinberg insisted the company is not purging any results and said that site search results are not appearing due to the site operator error “Anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results,” Weinberg tweeted. TorrentFreak later updated its report citing a company spokesperson blaming the issue on Bing search data, which DuckDuckGo relies upon.
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To observers, it seemed as if DuckDuckGo had de-indexed searches for copyright-flouting media download sites like The Pirate Bay and Fmovies, and even a site search for the open-source tool youtube-dl came up empty. DuckDuckGo’s CEO Gabriel Weinberg called the News Punch piece “completely made up” in a Twitter thread over the weekend to respond to the public and address both issues. This follows a News Punch article last month calling out DuckDuckGo for “purging” independent media sources from search results, and naming them “Google Lite”. Users of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo have been unable to site search the domains of some well-known pirated media sites recently, as reported by TorrentFreak on Friday.
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