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==Lack of subject-specific blocking==
 
==Lack of subject-specific blocking==
As of January 2018, a page from [[ISGP]] was the #3 hit on Ecosia for the search term "[[Dutroux affair]]"<ref>http://archive.is/TJpue</ref> - and several other search engines such as [[Yahoo]], [[Bing]], [[Yandex]] and [[Gigablast]] also had the page in their top 10 results. By contrast, neither [[Google]], [[StartPage]] nor [[Ask.com]] returned any hits from the [[ISGP]] site in the top 100 when the search term was queried for, although all three ''had'' indexed the page.
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As of February [[2021]], a page from [[ISGP]] was the #4 hit on Ecosia for the search term "[[Dutroux affair]]".<ref>http://archive.today/2021.02.17-132919/https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=Dutroux+affair</ref>
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In [[2018]] several other search engines such as [[Yahoo]], [[Bing]], [[Yandex]] and [[Gigablast]] also had the page in their top 10 results. By contrast, neither [[Google]], [[StartPage]] nor [[Ask.com]] returned any hits from the [[ISGP]] site in the top 100 when the search term was queried for, although all three ''had'' indexed the page.
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Revision as of 00:41, 18 February 2021

Ecosia logo.png
Website.png http://ecosia.org  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png

Owner: Christian Kroll
Constitutes: search engine

Ecosia is a small search engine which draws a lot of its results from Bing.

Lack of subject-specific blocking

As of February 2021, a page from ISGP was the #4 hit on Ecosia for the search term "Dutroux affair".[1]

In 2018 several other search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, Yandex and Gigablast also had the page in their top 10 results. By contrast, neither Google, StartPage nor Ask.com returned any hits from the ISGP site in the top 100 when the search term was queried for, although all three had indexed the page.


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