For example, there are no results for the streaming portals Flixtor and Primewire. The absence of results doesn’t only apply to pirate sites themselves. For RarBG.to and Fitgirl-repacks we only get one result, instead of the hundreds of thousands we see on other search engines. When we do similar searches for 1337x.to, Fmovies.to, Lookmovie.io, and, no results appear. This whole-site removal isn’t limited to The Pirate Bay either. Apparently, DuckDuckgo has simply removed all URLs from its index. The lack of results is not tied to a specific country and manually fiddling with the region settings didn’t change anything either. More details are at the bottom of the article.įor example, searching for “site:” is supposed to return all results DuckDuckGo has indexed for The Pirate Bay’s main domain name. Update April 17: DuckDuckGo informs us that no domains were removed but they are having some issues and we still have questions. Initially, we thought that some popular pages had been removed following DMCA takedown notices, but there is clearly more going on than that. When doing some research earlier today we noticed that several popular pirate sites were no longer showing up in DuckDuckGo’s results globally.
However, that appears to have changed now. At the time, the search engine stressed that these sites were still listed in search results. “We operate globally, as do bangs, and products that actively facilitate interaction with illegal content can have us and our employees face significant legal liability, and jeopardizing the entire service,” DuckDuckBang’s Tagawa explained.ĭuckDuckGo ended up removing roughly 2,000 bangs for popular sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and RARBG. These “bangs”, as they are called, were seen as a potential copyright infringement liability.
This first became apparent when it removed several search shortcuts for ‘pirate’ sites. The privacy-focused search engine is not immune to potential copyright issues, however. At one point, Google even pointed users to DuckDuckGo when they searched for Pirate Bay proxies. In recent years, the site also stood out by returning cleaner results than competitors such as Google, which actively alters its algorithms to downrank pirate sites. Unlike many competitors, the site doesn’t keep a record of users’ IP addresses or other sensitive information. Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy.
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