Google filters results to pander to it's users. For instance, if I search for some politics, infowars will be my top result if I am a conservative and CNN will be my top result if I am a liberal. So, Google will filter my results according to me. And startpage will help you prevent that filtering.
But also, I don't know if filtering is good or bad. For instance, if I search for 'bra' Google knows that I am a male physicist, so my top results will be about Dirac Bra rathar than a piece of clothing because that is most probably what I am searching for.
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Google filtering goes much further than that and if you haven't noticed you need to stop using it so you can realize what's happening to you. They tailor results to user profiles but they also ban entire sites and manipulate site standing depending o the narratives they want to push. And, obviously, filtering is bad. If you want specific results, the solution is not welcoming a censorship mechanism imposed by some outside entity to accommodate your laziness, the solution is using more specific search terms.
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Google filters results to pander to it's users. For instance, if I search for some politics, infowars will be my top result if I am a conservative and CNN will be my top result if I am a liberal. So, Google will filter my results according to me. And startpage will help you prevent that filtering.
But also, I don't know if filtering is good or bad. For instance, if I search for 'bra' Google knows that I am a male physicist, so my top results will be about Dirac Bra rathar than a piece of clothing because that is most probably what I am searching for.
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Google filtering goes much further than that and if you haven't noticed you need to stop using it so you can realize what's happening to you. They tailor results to user profiles but they also ban entire sites and manipulate site standing depending o the narratives they want to push. And, obviously, filtering is bad. If you want specific results, the solution is not welcoming a censorship mechanism imposed by some outside entity to accommodate your laziness, the solution is using more specific search terms.