DuckDuckGo says it hasn't removed pirate sites from its index

On Friday, we reported how it appeared that privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo had begun following in Google’s footsteps and removing copyright infringing links from its search results. As noted by TorrentFreak, sites affected included The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to, and popular YouTube downloader youtube-dl. However, DuckDuckGo says the firm hasn’t removed the sites from its index, and goes on to explain the reason for the issue. A spokesperson for DuckDuckGo tells us: After looking into this, our records indicate that YouTube-dl and The Pirate Bay were never removed from our search results when you searched for them directly by name or… [Continue Reading]