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by tehaugmenter 1560 days ago
I figure to be a more complete test you'd have to include Baidu the Chinese search engine, which is in no doubt censored. Or old school engines like ask.com, and Yahoo even though they serve Bing results to my understanding it would be nice to include them. Either way, good showcase, great example queries. Although I do think some should be catering the MSM narrative to see if the results give contrary results included.
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I think in the future people will just resort to checking yandex/baidu/duckduckgo every time they think the results might be censored. The opposing regimes are likely to censor complimentary parts of the web.
I've been doing this for awhile. Most importantly, I do this with my news. If there's a war in Europe, I don't even bother to check the BBC anymore, or German outlets. I try to grok Al Jazeera, India Times, Channel News Asia, see what's common between them.