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by freeflight 1696 days ago
Startpage.com uses Google results, which besides having become kinda useless, have their own issue with censorship [0]

[0] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html

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Google is also censoring a large list of search terms when used in combination with reddit. For example, you'll get zero results for "site:reddit.com underage".
How did you discover this? Any more examples?
I was trying to find information about a recent scandal and was surprised that I couldn't find any discussion on reddit. Restricting the results to reddit.com made it clear what was going on. These search terms are not censored on Yandex.

It seems that they've recently removed some search terms from the blacklist. If I remember correctly, the terms I had searched originally were "qanon" and "pizzagate" , but those are no longer censored. "pedo" and "jailbait" still trigger the censor though.