![]() ![]() ![]() TorrentFreak later updated its report citing a company spokesperson blaming the issue on Bing search data, which DuckDuckGo relies upon. 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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