Thank you for your comment, it does help us to keep track of the quality and neutrality of the search results. We are in a transition time, and will have new elements feeding a more even search result again soon --> with your feedback we'll work with the team to see what fixes we can get in quicker, and deeper changes coming in a month. Don't give up on us, we're fighting to make sure one-sided opinion pushing doesn't become the standard.
I stopped using Free spoke. Difficult to search. Same old crapola. Funny how the sell out schills get angry when they get called out. Will never understand - can't sleep on money . Drive 1 car, wear I pair shoes, eat only so much etc etc.
Don't give up on us yet! We're launching a new feature on Friday that will give you a panel of content that you can't find on Google for hot topics others in this substack chain have suggested.
We'd love to hear more feedback that we can use to make the product easier to search and find what you're looking for!
One of the topics which Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. ruthlessly censor and skew is climate change. I've created a web site where users can do customized linear and quadratic regression analyses and visualizations of sea-level measurements, from over 1200 locations, and from averaged combinations of those locations. It is the only resource on the Internet which has such functionality. This is my site:
Unfortunately for the climate industry narrative, most of the best sea-level measurement records show little or no sign that CO2 or climate change has affected sea-level trends. For instance, here's the best mid-Pacific sea-level measurement record. There are 118 years of precise measurements, from a nearly ideal measurement location, without even a single missing month. As you can see, despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels, the sea-level trend there has not detectably accelerated:
Unfortunately, it is no better than Google, Yahoo & Bing. The first six pages of results (about 85-90 results) were ALL climate scare propaganda. The first article I found which was NOT climate scare propaganda was on the 7th result page.
Not a single page from my sealevel.info web site was among those search results. Nor were there any results from leading climate blogs like WUWT (the #1 climate blog on the Internet), joannenova, judithcurry., etc. (until I found ONE from drroyspencer on the seventh page of results).
The only way to find such results is with a site search, like this:
Hi @davidburton - we are pulling a list of climate related sources that are independent and that google doesn't make easy to find. We've included the site you referenced (https:sealevel.info/) - but do you have 5-6 other sources you would recommend as well?Working on building a more robust offering of alternative sources, so anything you can share would be great!
Looking forward to hearing what you think about our new feature, you'll see the sources you've recommended included in the panel on the right to help people 'Get Perspective' by seeing what Google hides:
I frequently use the search engine, but have noticed the bigger engines woke bias built in. I do not support child genital mutilation, erasing women and girls, chopping off the genital a of gay boys, or cruelly telling kids they “can be born in the wrong body.” When I search for stores to avoid pride month I get 17 pages of search results cheering pride month.
I don't see much of a difference between your results and the fascist monopolies, tbh. I just started trying it out a few months back, but as long as you're reliant on compromised indexers, you're not going to add value. Add a url blacklist feature right up front with a pre-populated option to exclude all lying corporate media. Then you're off to the races.
I'd like that sidebar content mixed in the main results. Why separate? I'm also curious how you're determining what others hide.
I'd also like to see small and personal sites regularly (equally weighted with big names by user preference over time) if the content matches the query, especially useful for niche searches. Your results do seem to have more smaller site results, but still dominated by artificially pumped 'mainstream' domains I'm often trying to avoid entirely.
Thanks for the feedback. We are using the sidebar as an initial launch as we improve our ability to surface these smaller, independent, quality sources. We want to make sure they're answering the questions well and adding value. And then we'll integrate them into the general search results as you described.
I'm just noticing also, why are some results labeled 'middle' 'left' and 'right'? How is that progress? Thats exactly the divisive bs pushed by the cartels to keep us divided. A super simple web crawler could do a better job returning content based on the content alone. You don't need to add labels or categorize at all. I'm thinking now that you're an op.
various parts of Freespoke are set up to make sure you are getting different perspectives and not just one. Particularly the newsfeed and in search results. Can you send in an example where it's only showing a left leaning perspective? We'll look into it!
Most recently I did a search on a topic....& got back article suggestions that were ALL MARKED FOR THE LEFT....ONLY. That is so very weird because I had always got back results for both "Right & Left"...-then I could choose to read. Please, be honest...have you changed your 'search algorithms'....or worse sold your "Search Engine" off, completely??
Even some of my friends who I had recommended you to, have asked me same questions most recently...that I am asking you now.
Results from my last search has nothing but MSM, Marxist, globalist propaganda on the first 7 pages. Is this engine captured by Google foreign scumbags throttling the truth ?
Where's all the Right news about Trump? I just did a search on Georgia arrest. There are NO RESULTS marked Middle or Right. I know they're talking about it... Where is it?
Check it out, sometimes Main Stream Media bombards the system, but we're working on always getting different perspective and independent sources in each result
What is making you feel like it's one sided? we are working on a feature that will go above and beyond to make sure topics like climate change, Ukraine, political topics and the culture topics of the day are fully covered from the side Google doesn't readily show, as well as the side Google makes easy to find. Our goal is to make sure you can see all viewpoints and get to the content you want faster. We don't censor and we support free speech. And we don't show adult content - but we're putting extra checks in place on this feature as well. Do you feel like this feature work will solve your desire?
The ideal solution might be to run your own crawler bot, which crawls only the high-quality sites that the Big Tech search engines discriminate against. Then, when returning search results to users, interleave the results from the two sources: one result from the leftist service, then one result from your own crawler, then one from the leftists, then one from your own, etc..
I don't want Freespoke to give me results from ONLY the sources which Google, Yahoo, etc. discriminates against. I want balance. I want to hear from BOTH sides.
The problem with the leftist search engine companies isn't that they return results from leftist sources, it is that they OMIT results from the conservative sources which they've indexed.
Another potentially useful feature for your site might be to maintain cookie-based site-by-site user preferences. I'm imagining a feature in which a user could click a "Rate" button beside one your search results, and rate the veracity of the site which hosts that result, 1-to-5, with 1 being awful/never use, 2 being poor/deboost, 3 being average/default/unrated, 4 being good/boost, and 5 being very good/max-boost. Future searches would check results against the user's custom ratings, and adjust them accordingly.
One tricky aspect to that feature is that you'd need to carry the essential bits of rating info along in the URL, so that if the user copies the URL for his Freespoke search results and bookmarks it or sends it to someone else, the recipient would see similar results.
We're launching our feature this Friday to help surface more of that content specifically - I'll send you an example here on Friday so you can see it! We've been working on it for awhile and just starting the rollout this week
Ok, we'd LOVE your thoughts on this feature. Check out the panel on the right side on some results that helps people to 'Get Perspective' by seeing what Google hides:
I emailed Kristin about climate-related searches. It's a long email, which wouldn't fit into a comment here. The "tl;dr" version is, "it's a start, but..."
Unfortunately, most climate-related searches still return nothing but propaganda from the parasitic climate industry and their leftist allies.
W/r/t health matters, beware of Peter McCullough. He is a notorious grifter and liar, who preys on the gullible, and his lies KILL people.
Here's a detailed rebuttal of the McCullough disinformation, by David H. Gorski, MD, PhD:
Grifters like McCullough have invented and spread a wide variety of evil lies, to try to dupe people into refusing Covid-19 vaccination, with potentially deadly consequences. Among the lies I've heard are:
• the lie that Covid-19, itself, is not dangerous, or that it's no worse than a mild flu; and
• the lie that the pandemic, itself, is fake; and
• the lie that vaccines are "gene therapy," or that they "change your DNA;" and
• the lie that the vaccines are a population control scheme, which reduces your fertility; and
• the lie that the vaccines cause miscarriages; and
• the lie that vaccination is a scheme to make you docile; and
• the lie that the vaccines are poisonous; and
• the lie that vaccination implants microchips; and
• the lie that vaccination makes people "transhuman;" and
• the lie that the vaccines contain dangerous "graphene hydroxide sheets;" and
• the lie that the vaccines are as dangerous as the disease, or more dangerous than the disease.
McCullough is just one the grifters who invent and spread those deadly lies. Others include Joe Mercola, RFK Jr, Alex Jones, Jon Rappoport, Mike 'Health Ranger' Adams, Robert Malone, Simone Gold, Br. Alexis Bugnolo, and Sherri Tenpenny. They're doing their father's work [John 8:44].
Do not mistake those ghouls for the principled conservatives who are censored by leftist tech companies, to promote progressive propaganda on social, environmental, and economic issues.
What proof do you offer for your statements? Simply asserting some drivel and attaching it to persons doesn't put up a credible argument. Of course, those who toe the mainstream line don't engage in credible debates so I shouldn't be surprised. You are attacking one of the (if not the) most published cardiologists on the planet. He both practices and does research and has been subjected to the same rigors of peer-review that the the majority of "experts" cite as the standard for vetting medical opinions.
You would do well to actually look into the truth of what he and many others have stated about the Covid pandemic, "vaccines", masks, social-distancing, efficacy and a whole host of inter-related consequences of our collective actions during this crisis. To put it bluntly - you haven't a clue what you're talking about and the majority of your bullet points can not be attributed to Dr. M or many others on your list. As for it not being a vaccine but a gene therapy I direct your misinformed brain to the FDA's own website where you will find that mRNA technologies are classified, IN POINT OF FACT, as gene therapies. The rest of your narrative can be dispensed with by anyone with an eighth-grade education (even in America's school system). It is the ignorant sheep devoid of critical thinking skills that pose the danger. Fortunately ignorance can be fixed, stupidity is another thing entirely. Which might you be?
Just read about the price hike inflicted on you.
Remember the flak is always thickest when you are nearly over the target...
You used to be my go to search engine. Of late I find you citing Wikipedia, using fact checkers who are DNC controlled.
I went to check Donbass massacre & I got the propaganda version favored by the left. I sincerely hope you have not sold out like DuckDuckGo.?
I really liked your site. Please don't go Left. I am interested in facts. Not Fiction.
Thank you.
Mrs.Baumann
Thank you for your comment, it does help us to keep track of the quality and neutrality of the search results. We are in a transition time, and will have new elements feeding a more even search result again soon --> with your feedback we'll work with the team to see what fixes we can get in quicker, and deeper changes coming in a month. Don't give up on us, we're fighting to make sure one-sided opinion pushing doesn't become the standard.
Appreciate the response. Thank you.
I'm seeing the same thing!
I stopped using Free spoke. Difficult to search. Same old crapola. Funny how the sell out schills get angry when they get called out. Will never understand - can't sleep on money . Drive 1 car, wear I pair shoes, eat only so much etc etc.
Don't give up on us yet! We're launching a new feature on Friday that will give you a panel of content that you can't find on Google for hot topics others in this substack chain have suggested.
We'd love to hear more feedback that we can use to make the product easier to search and find what you're looking for!
Is this why I can't hardly find any pictures on here anymore?
yes, we're working to fix that, it will likely be 3-4 more weeks before they are back. I'll send you a note once we've relaunched images!
image search is fixed!
One of the topics which Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. ruthlessly censor and skew is climate change. I've created a web site where users can do customized linear and quadratic regression analyses and visualizations of sea-level measurements, from over 1200 locations, and from averaged combinations of those locations. It is the only resource on the Internet which has such functionality. This is my site:
https://sealevel.info/
Unfortunately for the climate industry narrative, most of the best sea-level measurement records show little or no sign that CO2 or climate change has affected sea-level trends. For instance, here's the best mid-Pacific sea-level measurement record. There are 118 years of precise measurements, from a nearly ideal measurement location, without even a single missing month. As you can see, despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels, the sea-level trend there has not detectably accelerated:
https://sealevel.info/MSL_graph.php?id=Honolulu
https://sealevel.info/1612340_Honolulu_thru_2023-02_vs_CO2_annot1.png
Unfortunately, you cannot learn those facts with a Google, Yahoo or Bing search.
So I just did a Freespoke search for:
sea level rise
This was the search which I used:
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=sea+level+rise
Unfortunately, it is no better than Google, Yahoo & Bing. The first six pages of results (about 85-90 results) were ALL climate scare propaganda. The first article I found which was NOT climate scare propaganda was on the 7th result page.
Not a single page from my sealevel.info web site was among those search results. Nor were there any results from leading climate blogs like WUWT (the #1 climate blog on the Internet), joannenova, judithcurry., etc. (until I found ONE from drroyspencer on the seventh page of results).
The only way to find such results is with a site search, like this:
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=sea+level+rise+site%3Asealevel.info
I also tried ResultHunter and Tusk (two other search sites which are trying to solve the google bias/censorship problem), and they did no better.
I have some ideas about how to improve matters. Let me know if you'd like to hear them.
https://sealevel.info/contact.html
Having product/engineering director team meetings on this, we'll be in touch. Looking forward to your continued feedback to help us solve.
Hi @davidburton - we are pulling a list of climate related sources that are independent and that google doesn't make easy to find. We've included the site you referenced (https:sealevel.info/) - but do you have 5-6 other sources you would recommend as well?Working on building a more robust offering of alternative sources, so anything you can share would be great!
Thank you! I'm sorry for the tardy reply; I just noticed your comment. If that happens again, please ping me with an email or phone call.
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It's hard to whittle it down to just the six best. Maybe these:
https://thegwpf.org/
https://co2coalition.org/
http://co2science.org/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/
https://judithcurry.com/
https://cfact.org/
.
These are also superb:
https://www.drroyspencer.com/
https://heartland.org/
https://cornwallalliance.org/
https://joannenova.com.au/
https://climateaudit.org/
https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/climate-blog/
https://clintel.org/
.
I also have links to many other good resources, on my site:
https://sealevel.info/
Looking forward to hearing what you think about our new feature, you'll see the sources you've recommended included in the panel on the right to help people 'Get Perspective' by seeing what Google hides:
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=climate
Thanks! I did some tests, and wrote a reply, but when I tried to post it here I got an error message:
<b style="color:orange">Please type a shorter comment</b>
So, instead, I emailed it to Kristin.
Thank you freespoke for showing all sides of the story. You are my go to source!
I frequently use the search engine, but have noticed the bigger engines woke bias built in. I do not support child genital mutilation, erasing women and girls, chopping off the genital a of gay boys, or cruelly telling kids they “can be born in the wrong body.” When I search for stores to avoid pride month I get 17 pages of search results cheering pride month.
I don't see much of a difference between your results and the fascist monopolies, tbh. I just started trying it out a few months back, but as long as you're reliant on compromised indexers, you're not going to add value. Add a url blacklist feature right up front with a pre-populated option to exclude all lying corporate media. Then you're off to the races.
I'm going back to pamphlets and zines
any thoughts on this new feature we just released? It's the "Get Perspective, find what others hide" panel on the right:
Here for climate related searches: https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=climate
Here for hunter biden: https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=hunter+biden
or for natural health and covid: https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=natural+health+and+covid
I'd like that sidebar content mixed in the main results. Why separate? I'm also curious how you're determining what others hide.
I'd also like to see small and personal sites regularly (equally weighted with big names by user preference over time) if the content matches the query, especially useful for niche searches. Your results do seem to have more smaller site results, but still dominated by artificially pumped 'mainstream' domains I'm often trying to avoid entirely.
Thanks for the feedback. We are using the sidebar as an initial launch as we improve our ability to surface these smaller, independent, quality sources. We want to make sure they're answering the questions well and adding value. And then we'll integrate them into the general search results as you described.
curious if that feature is more of what you're looking for?
I'm just noticing also, why are some results labeled 'middle' 'left' and 'right'? How is that progress? Thats exactly the divisive bs pushed by the cartels to keep us divided. A super simple web crawler could do a better job returning content based on the content alone. You don't need to add labels or categorize at all. I'm thinking now that you're an op.
I have noticed I am receiving only "Left" minded Articles to read when I do a search topic.
What is going on with Freespoke??
various parts of Freespoke are set up to make sure you are getting different perspectives and not just one. Particularly the newsfeed and in search results. Can you send in an example where it's only showing a left leaning perspective? We'll look into it!
Most recently I did a search on a topic....& got back article suggestions that were ALL MARKED FOR THE LEFT....ONLY. That is so very weird because I had always got back results for both "Right & Left"...-then I could choose to read. Please, be honest...have you changed your 'search algorithms'....or worse sold your "Search Engine" off, completely??
Even some of my friends who I had recommended you to, have asked me same questions most recently...that I am asking you now.
Results from my last search has nothing but MSM, Marxist, globalist propaganda on the first 7 pages. Is this engine captured by Google foreign scumbags throttling the truth ?
What was the search query? We'll fix it to show broader perspectives.
Where's all the Right news about Trump? I just did a search on Georgia arrest. There are NO RESULTS marked Middle or Right. I know they're talking about it... Where is it?
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=trump+georgia+arrest
Check it out, sometimes Main Stream Media bombards the system, but we're working on always getting different perspective and independent sources in each result
Freespoke is woke! Already you have succumbed. Where do we go now for ethical web searches?
What is making you feel like it's one sided? we are working on a feature that will go above and beyond to make sure topics like climate change, Ukraine, political topics and the culture topics of the day are fully covered from the side Google doesn't readily show, as well as the side Google makes easy to find. Our goal is to make sure you can see all viewpoints and get to the content you want faster. We don't censor and we support free speech. And we don't show adult content - but we're putting extra checks in place on this feature as well. Do you feel like this feature work will solve your desire?
The problem is that the source(s) you reply on for search results are severely biasing those results.
In some cases, adding a site: term improves the results:
Simple search:
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=climate+crisis
(finds nothing but propaganda)
Same search with site: term added:
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=climate+crisis+%28site%3Asealevel.info%7Csite%3Awattsupwiththat.com%7Csite%3Aco2coalition.org%7Csite%3Athegwpf.org%7Csite%3Ajudithcurry.com%7Csite%3Acfact.org%29
(finds a good mix of results)
The ideal solution might be to run your own crawler bot, which crawls only the high-quality sites that the Big Tech search engines discriminate against. Then, when returning search results to users, interleave the results from the two sources: one result from the leftist service, then one result from your own crawler, then one from the leftists, then one from your own, etc..
I don't want Freespoke to give me results from ONLY the sources which Google, Yahoo, etc. discriminates against. I want balance. I want to hear from BOTH sides.
The problem with the leftist search engine companies isn't that they return results from leftist sources, it is that they OMIT results from the conservative sources which they've indexed.
Another potentially useful feature for your site might be to maintain cookie-based site-by-site user preferences. I'm imagining a feature in which a user could click a "Rate" button beside one your search results, and rate the veracity of the site which hosts that result, 1-to-5, with 1 being awful/never use, 2 being poor/deboost, 3 being average/default/unrated, 4 being good/boost, and 5 being very good/max-boost. Future searches would check results against the user's custom ratings, and adjust them accordingly.
One tricky aspect to that feature is that you'd need to carry the essential bits of rating info along in the URL, so that if the user copies the URL for his Freespoke search results and bookmarks it or sends it to someone else, the recipient would see similar results.
Can you tell us what the source is so we can fix that?
working on it!
We're launching our feature this Friday to help surface more of that content specifically - I'll send you an example here on Friday so you can see it! We've been working on it for awhile and just starting the rollout this week
Ok, we'd LOVE your thoughts on this feature. Check out the panel on the right side on some results that helps people to 'Get Perspective' by seeing what Google hides:
Climate: https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=climate
Natural health solutions and covid: https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=natural+health+and+covid
It's starting to populate on Hunter Biden: https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=hunter+biden
I emailed Kristin about climate-related searches. It's a long email, which wouldn't fit into a comment here. The "tl;dr" version is, "it's a start, but..."
Unfortunately, most climate-related searches still return nothing but propaganda from the parasitic climate industry and their leftist allies.
W/r/t health matters, beware of Peter McCullough. He is a notorious grifter and liar, who preys on the gullible, and his lies KILL people.
Here's a detailed rebuttal of the McCullough disinformation, by David H. Gorski, MD, PhD:
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/05/17/latest-antivax-lie-covid-19-vaccines-are-killing-people/
Grifters like McCullough have invented and spread a wide variety of evil lies, to try to dupe people into refusing Covid-19 vaccination, with potentially deadly consequences. Among the lies I've heard are:
• the lie that Covid-19, itself, is not dangerous, or that it's no worse than a mild flu; and
• the lie that the pandemic, itself, is fake; and
• the lie that vaccines are "gene therapy," or that they "change your DNA;" and
• the lie that the vaccines are a population control scheme, which reduces your fertility; and
• the lie that the vaccines cause miscarriages; and
• the lie that vaccination is a scheme to make you docile; and
• the lie that the vaccines are poisonous; and
• the lie that vaccination implants microchips; and
• the lie that vaccination makes people "transhuman;" and
• the lie that the vaccines contain dangerous "graphene hydroxide sheets;" and
• the lie that the vaccines are as dangerous as the disease, or more dangerous than the disease.
McCullough is just one the grifters who invent and spread those deadly lies. Others include Joe Mercola, RFK Jr, Alex Jones, Jon Rappoport, Mike 'Health Ranger' Adams, Robert Malone, Simone Gold, Br. Alexis Bugnolo, and Sherri Tenpenny. They're doing their father's work [John 8:44].
Do not mistake those ghouls for the principled conservatives who are censored by leftist tech companies, to promote progressive propaganda on social, environmental, and economic issues.
What proof do you offer for your statements? Simply asserting some drivel and attaching it to persons doesn't put up a credible argument. Of course, those who toe the mainstream line don't engage in credible debates so I shouldn't be surprised. You are attacking one of the (if not the) most published cardiologists on the planet. He both practices and does research and has been subjected to the same rigors of peer-review that the the majority of "experts" cite as the standard for vetting medical opinions.
You would do well to actually look into the truth of what he and many others have stated about the Covid pandemic, "vaccines", masks, social-distancing, efficacy and a whole host of inter-related consequences of our collective actions during this crisis. To put it bluntly - you haven't a clue what you're talking about and the majority of your bullet points can not be attributed to Dr. M or many others on your list. As for it not being a vaccine but a gene therapy I direct your misinformed brain to the FDA's own website where you will find that mRNA technologies are classified, IN POINT OF FACT, as gene therapies. The rest of your narrative can be dispensed with by anyone with an eighth-grade education (even in America's school system). It is the ignorant sheep devoid of critical thinking skills that pose the danger. Fortunately ignorance can be fixed, stupidity is another thing entirely. Which might you be?