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I had just searched 1337x and nothing too much else so it seems that duckduckgo may (sensor?) the site:1337x.tw or similar but also I feel like ddg doesnt really censor the ability to find the website by just searchign 1337x

Although I still agree that this is interesting discovery but I didnt know that these sites allowed to be indexed in the first place and that the issue was from ddg site, I always thought it was the opposite or didnt really give much too thought into it but interesting, I would love to discuss more about why you might think so this is the case or how it can meaningfully impact I suppose.

I think that the issue here could be that there might be some censorship from big upstream or that ddg does it to prevent any legal issues which I am sure can open a load ton of questions if you scrape something tangentially related to copyright/similar so it might be understandable why they might do this I suppose.





I did different searches and am getting some more results than I used to.

This hash search gives one site: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%229623748B411A3CD02DE8F332820C4C7...

This way also gives one torrent site: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=all+quiet+on+the+western+front+193...


> I feel like ddg doesnt really censor the ability to find the website by just searchign 1337x

For us users, the point of search engines is to index the context of sites and tell us which one(s) have the info we're looking for.

There isn't much point to a search engine that just tells us where a site is. Even less to tell us for a site we already know.




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