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.
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.
Sounds good. I use primary sources, too— hard to get on some search engines. Thanks for the suggestions!