FWIW I spent nearly two weeks marking "the great reset" on my twitter trends as "not interested", only for it to still show up, both in the forms I had already blocked and in new ones (#thegreatreset, "great reset", etc). You don't get that kind of trend persistence without some entity pushing hard for it via bots.

I don't know why DDG blocked that query, but I would bet it was due to bot spam.

Update: it appears that there is a reason for it.

DDG doesn't show results if there isn't an exact match for the query it seems. It requires you to search the same query again for some reason.

Maybe this is an experiment of some sort, I'm not sure. Again, this doesn't happen on a VPN, but happens on my ip address.

And no corporate settings interfere with the browser, it's the personal device I tried on.

Another thing: when you search for "names database" on DDG there doesn't appear to be any results. No matter how much you try. I haven't found another query that yielded the same results.

Why would that query be censored?

Especially on DDG. I was under the impression that only Google was meddling with your search results.

When? Which company? Let's see some business registrations or other primary sources.

What's the name of the spyware company he founded?

If you're referring to Names Database, how is that spyware?

Is there any evidence that the query is actually censored, beyond conspiracy theories?

I attached the proof pic.

edit: To the comment below saying I'm lying.

Yes it does query. The first time I query, it doesnt give results. Then I query it again and it shows all results (same query, pressing the search icon again). This is stealthy censorship and an unsuspecting person wouldn't notice.

This doesn't happen for any other query. And it only happens with my work ip address, not a VPN.

Edit2: Still not working for me, I have to query it twice to get the results. Maybe this is happening for selected ip addresses. This doesn't happen when I use a VPN.

Working flawlessly for me, no matter how many times I reload.

Ockham's razor encourages me to believe that this is just some minor technical issue on either side, rather than censorship.

That's proof that Duckduckgo didn't find any results for the great reset at that particular time. It is not evidence for censorship, as you say "sometimes", meaning it could be a thousand other reasons why that is happening.

> This doesn't happen when I use a VPN.

That points at your network (ISP, LAN) more than DDG. You might try other less popular search engines (maybe Bing) to see if this behavior happens there as well.

Works fine here, including the first time I tried.

FYI, I'm also a software developer/engineer. I do understand when glitches happen, but this seems too off.

If it works on a VPN, or a proxy server but not your own ip address. Are you really sure it's just a "glitch"?

And there are good reasons to think that way. Partially because there have been conspiracy theories about the "great reset", so this might be a way to stop the viral spread or whatever. I mean it's not too long ago when it came out that google censored queries to websites unless you typed the name directly in google.

When trust is broken, it's wise to be skeptical.

And yes, I did read the comments and rule out other things.

Couldn't repro. What's the censored part of your image? I don't see anything there, maybe it's relevant.

That's the location/country, if I am not wrong.

'sometimes' doesn't make sense. That would also just create more interest.

Is there a specific talk there that you are recommending?