Are search engines removing access to the accessible internet?
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Go to Google, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, any search you want, hit the Images tab and search for something innocuous like "Tomatoes"
See how far you get before you get cut off. Yandex lets me get the farthest of all the ones I've tried.
When I was younger I remember this going on and on as long as you wanted. Now only "approved sites" are shown? I work in IT and this was a big WTH to me.
I have no source, just something I remember seeing on a conspiracy site years and years ago. Was in Calgary at the time, so would have been 2008 at the latest, but it was something like they refreshed the internet every XXX of time per day and all the websites they didn't want us accessing were banished to the dark web, or made not available via search engine. I don't know the technicals of how any of that could happen, so don't rip me apart lol.
Just something I do remember seeing something about a long time ago. It wouldn't be outside the box to think that is entirely possible.
Does that mean searching the dark web gives better results?
The dark web isn't dot com websites. It's there to buy drugs from government agents, hire FBI agents as contract killers, and download child porn.
If you're not in the club, it's there so they can arrest you after you make the attempt.
I didn’t intend to come across as naive, but maybe I did. I used Tor long before fake pandemics and stolen elections taught us the difference between prudence and fear. With Tor, I kept away from what I didn’t want to know about—and got neither corrupted or nor arrested.
What I’m wondering about are ways to find stuff that’s kept off the standard searches “for our own good”—which means for the good (and convenience) of the Information Keepers. Anybody got thoughts on that?
When I want information about anything, I try to track down primary sources as much as possible.
Rather than rely on articles explaining Joe Biden's Executive Orders, I go directly to the source, as an example.
https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders
As far as finding information in searches, I use https://swisscows.com , https://qwant.com (when the search contains cuss words or triggers Swiss Cows for some reason), and recently, I've been using https://webcrawler.com, which is a very old search engine. All of its results are generated from web spider bots like Google uses before it curates the results.