Breitbart Alleges Google Has Removed Their Website From Their Search Results

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Details are within the article itself including charts. There has been a dramatic drop in traffic to Breitbart since 2016 which in itself isn't too surprising, but ever since May 2020 there has been another dramatic shift or drop in their traffic as well as it comes from the Google Search Engine. Breitbart naturally alleges Google's interference in this whole thing.

Along with being blacklisted, Breitbart also alleges this is more widespread to other right wing news sites as well.

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Percentages of website traffic from Google, via Alexa web rankings. Red = media sources with conservative or libertarian-leaning editorial stances. Data is a six-month average as of July 7, 2020.
 

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If by internet, you mean search engine, we did. It's called duckduckgo. Shockingly, the free market seems to work.
duckduckgo is horrible. I tried, I really tried to give it a chance, but the search algorithm is inferior to google.
 

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duckduckgo is horrible. I tried, I really tried to give it a chance, but the search algorithm is inferior to google.
Obviously it's not as good. I mean, that's the point. It's agreeing not to track your every step, so it cannot be quite as good. When I need something perfect, just use !g in your search for google. Meanwhile, you're here complaining about google when there is a viable option you refuse to use.
 
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gral

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Obviously. I mean, that's the point. It's agreeing not to track your every step, so it won't be quite as good. When I need something perfect, just use !g in your search for google. Meanwhile, you're here complaining about google when there is a viable option you refuse to use.
I assume you mean "you're here" in the general sense. But my point is no, duckduckgo isn't viable yet(just like Bing wasn't viable, IMO, for a long time, if ever). It(and swisscows) may become viable in the future, but the difference was big enough I gave up on it even given my misgivings with google.
 

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I assume you mean "you're here" in the general sense. But my point is no, duckduckgo isn't viable yet(just like Bing wasn't viable, IMO, for a long time, if ever). It(and swisscows) may become viable in the future, but the difference was big enough I gave up on it even given my misgivings with google.
I mean, I use it constantly; it's very viable. The thing is there will be a real, constant performance difference between a search engine that personalizes results (read: tracks everything you do), and one that doesn't.
 

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I assume you mean "you're here" in the general sense. But my point is no, duckduckgo isn't viable yet(just like Bing wasn't viable, IMO, for a long time, if ever). It(and swisscows) may become viable in the future, but the difference was big enough I gave up on it even given my misgivings with google.

Unless I need the Maps function, I use DuckDuckGo. It's my default now. It gets the job done just fine.
 

sander093

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I mean, I use it constantly; it's very viable. The thing is there will be a real, constant performance difference between a search engine that personalizes results (read: tracks everything you do), and one that doesn't.
Which is why I use it.

Can be quite interesting to see what duckduckgo comes up with vs what google spits out.
 

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