BadVista campaign pages were conspicuously absent from
Microsoft's live.com search results, even though the same
pages had been appearing on the first page of "windows
vista" Google results for some time. Many people contacted
Microsoft about this, and eventually the pages began
appearing as one would expect.
I wonder if services like DuckDuckGo, who aggregate search results across multiple providers, are effective at bypassing this kind of censorship[1]? For example if Yahoo started filtering out sites that are negative towards Yahoo, and Microsoft did the same for their brand, and Google did the same for their brand. I think DuckDuckGo would be able to provide a more balanced result set.
(Unfortunately the place where DDG seems to least effective is when I'm looking for a particular article by searching for a certain phrase; Google always seems to find it and with DDG I have to dig around. So hopefully that article isn't anti-Google...)
(Unfortunately the place where DDG seems to least effective is when I'm looking for a particular article by searching for a certain phrase; Google always seems to find it and with DDG I have to dig around. So hopefully that article isn't anti-Google...)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship