Extremely surprised to see Bing show it, since DDG apparently gets their search results from there
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Thanks for doing this work! I just tested it now, and same results: ddg doesn't show my page while google does.
My only guess is that ddg is completely removing pages that have links to sites they have on political blocklist.
See other comments though; It's looking more likely that it's just bugs in the parsing mixed with an undocumented not
operator.
Still a chance it's bugs in the (hypothetical) downranking mixed with bugs in the parsing, but nothing conclusively demonstrates that yet.
Yeah, DDG search results have left me disappointed in the recent months. Have you tried Searx?
Edit: Why do I have this stupid habit of diagonally reading posts...
Interesting. I got curious as to whether it was actually delisted or just that DuckDuckGo was bad at ranking results, so I tried searching a quote from the article:
Signal became one of the first platforms to develop and use an end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) system and open standard, which many other platforms adopted or modified for their own use.
And it did show Dess's page as the first result at the time of posting this.
Though, this doesn't conclusively exonerate DDG, it's still entirely possible that they really are intentionally ranking it down which is why it didn't show up with a more general search term, or maybe it truly is just a bad relevancy-finding algorithm, but I guess it does prove that at least they haven't removed it entirely. 🤷
Works for me, tho. HTML ddg put dessalines essay on first result
"Why not signal essay" shows it as the first result.