DuckDuckGo Search Engine Wants To Penalize Sites Associated With Disinformation

The CEO of search engine DuckDuckGo Gabriel Weinberg has said that they want to penalize sites which are associated with Russian disinformation.

Weinberg took to social media and said “Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create.”

“At DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation,” he added.

"To highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics," Weinberg noted, DuckDuckGo is also inserting information bubbles at the top of the search results page.

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DuckDuckGo is a Google alternative that has grown in popularity in recent years, in part due to the fact that it does not track users. In the past, Weinberg has enticed consumers to switch from Google by promising "unbiased results."

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