Is duckduckgo.com partially enforcing the “celebrity threesome injunction”?
No, DDG doesn&#x27;t have its own crawler. And such censorship as described is impossible to distinguish from results being pushed up or down the rankings by more focused terms, without some computation that would slow your search down, as well as more queries to more sources, resulting in more network roundtrips, that would slow your search down even more, doing so causing a massive slowdown on all searches, for a check that is irrelevant 99% of the time. That kind of slowdown is unacceptable.<p>But then, who was surprised? RMS has long been known to put purity before practicality, and to say that network and computing time is cheap, a very MIT attitude, and one that does not serve people trying to run a service for hundreds and thousands of people, who all expect their response to come back fast.