Mercola.com is one of my favorite medical and nutritional research sites.
I do not always agree with Dr. Joseph Mercola on everything, but I love his citations.
He has a thorough research team that combs the medical journals for the most complete sources.
The research they do is brilliant.
So, knowing what you know about the in-depth research I have done for my books Face Masks in One Lesson and Face Masks Hurt Kids, you probably would not be surprised to learn that in the spring of 2020, I was regularly digging through Mercola’s latest research to see what primary sources he used that I was not finding on my own.
Something changed, though.
For years, I had been using search engines to find the writing on Mercola.com.
I was using Google initially (which became an inferior search engine around 2015), and then I switched to Duck Duck Go later. That winter of 2019-2020, before the lockdowns began, something changed in many search engines. The search engines suddenly were not showing me the same results.
I decided to try something. My team and I methodically did a few hundred searches over a few days to figure out who was censoring Mercola and how. This allowed us to create a rough model of what the search engines were censoring.
I did this by copying and pasting unique titles of Mercola’s articles into the search engine and running the search.
It is research that anyone can duplicate.
The results: 12 out of 13 search engines failed the censorship test. Practically every single search engine that you have heard people brag about failed the test.
One was pretty good.
Just one.
Let me give you a spoiler, out of the 13 search engines I tested that spring, DUCK DUCK GO WAS THE WORST.
I am not joking, Duck Duck Go ranked worse in my test than Google, Bing, Yahoo, you name it.
It is a great report, and I have added — right on the first page — the two awesome search engines that I love to use.
Just tap here to request that report.
Allan Stevo
I haven't read your report yet (going there next). I KNEW IT WASN'T JUST ME!
Search engines have become infuriatingly annoying and misleading. But I figured something out, it's just AMERICAN search engines that took a dive (maybe) because I started using yandex.com (located in NY) and began getting answers that google and other search engines were not.
Then after downloading and installing the yandex browser I started to find that yandex.ru (located out of Russia) actually gave me more of everything (images were relevant, results were relevant, videos were relevant but you might have to use the words "in english", when searching for a video.
The thing that made yandex browser so much better than firefox was its low resource consumption (I noticed that right away, no more were my cpu cores pegged) but the big winner for me is that yandex browser auto-converts any language into my own automatically. What I mean is I can visit an .il site (Israel) and read their news in my own language, same with Russian, German, etc. (*this last one doesn't belong on this comment but it was a clear winner for me that all browsers are not the same, nor are their search engines).
Yandex.ru is the new google
Try it