Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google?

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• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  This is pretty sadmusing.

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  “Sharpe do” also works in a similar fashion.

  If you click on “only show results for [not sharpedo]” the results vary, but usually there’s one or more sharpedos in there.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Duckduckgo retrive his results from bing btw

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  • medusa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good to know. Still doesn’t explain why Google behaves but DDG doesn’t.

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because Bing is owned by Microsoft, ddg uses bing by default. So if bing doesn’t load something ddg won’t either.

      Do the search in ddg again but with the Google flag.

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  • Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thought Bing had stopped selling api to other companies?

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• s@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My guess is that it’s an offshoot of the Scunthorpe Problem. My theory (without hard evidence) is that Bing/DDG have a blacklist of terms to completely filter out from results, but a whitelist of words that contain those terms which are exceptions to the filter. This would explain why “torpedo” is ok but less common terms like “Sharpedo” wouldn’t be flagged as ok. You’d have to find other examples with other blocked words to test this idea.

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  • medusa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This crossed my mind too, but I wanted to verify. I’m not sure what other words would be good testers, but if you happen to find some, I’d love to know!

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just type some gibberish but with pedo in it. It should still return something if it’s not actually blacklisted since most searches use some form of word distance algorithm.

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• msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  That’s what AI does for ya.

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• GlenRambo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Interesting that sharkpedo (how I thought it was spelt) works in DDG (as other users say DDG is bing).

  I think the same as others. Just a shitty word filter in bing - word filtetes never work consistantly.

  Knownword-pedo works (mostly) but not always. Treepedo works. Catpedo dosnt.

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  • alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe 3 letters isn’t enough and if the word is “mostly” pedo it fails

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• snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Scunthorpe

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• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bing/DDG have a lot of weird censorship.

  “Shapedo” and “Sharkpedo” both work btw.

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• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I put jpg after then it works

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  • medusa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I found also typing “sharkpedo” works. Still doesn’t explain why Google behaves but DDG doesn’t.

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    • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      ‘Sharpedo Pokémon’ works too

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    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does it happen with other pokemon? Maybe Nintendo had images deindexed for some reason.

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