Even more strange is that when I type “PeerTube”, some suggestions appear, but searching any of them will end up back on the “no results found” page.
The suggestions:
Searching one of them:
It has been a few weeks since I first encountered this issue. I’ve tried again and again, but it never worked.
You’re in Safe search: strict mode. It probably thinks it’s a term for porn and therefore blocks it completely. Set it to moderate or off and you’ll get results.
What is your safe search setting set to on duck duck go?
If it is set to strict it will result in no results but if you set it to moderate it will return results.
It was on moderate. Turning it off didn’t make any changes.
It is weird that your snapshots don’t have the safe search options shown like mine and everyone elses. Do you have any content filters or anything like that on your devices or internet? They could be forcing it to be strict even if you choose otherwise.
Might be a duckduckgo bug, but have you tried another search engine to see if it works there?
Yes, I tried with SearX, and it worked.
Then with that testing, either ddg filters results, or your ISP doesn’t want you to use ddg.
Edit, or it is because they use bing. But use searx and be free.
well, you posted a screenshot searching not for “peertube” but for “peertube instance”.
nonetheless, both work for me in DDG:
peertube
peertube instances
perhaps it’s blocked by your isp?
Searching “PeerTube” doesn’t return any results. peertube (all lower case) doesn’t return anything either. What’s funny is that “pertube” returns the correct results for “PeerTube”. It seems like it works like this: If the IP requesting the search is from my country and it’s searching PeerTube or peertube it’s going to block the search. But why should it?! PeerTube isn’t blocked here. YouTube is though.
I get results searching for peertube on DDG.
Have you ever tried SearxNG? It’s a foss meta-search engine that anyone can host an instance of, or you can use some one else’s instance.
