![]() ![]() "Praise for DuckDuckGo has become a popular refrain during the pandemic among right-wing social media influencers and conspiracy theorists who question Covid-19 vaccines and push discredited coronavirus treatments," the Times writes. ![]() This intentional curation of search results have led many users to switch from Google to other search engines that are more transparent in how results are gathered, such as DuckDuckGo, but for The New York Times, this is yet another indication that a person is likely a conspiracy theorist. That curation, whether to tailor search results to a user's browsing history, provide promoted results, or to steer users away from what the search engine has classified as "misinformation" or "disinformation," can be frustrating when users can't find what they're looking for using a keyword search. Everyone who uses the internet knows at this point that when using search engine Google, results are curated. ![]()
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