I wouldn't jump to that conclusion either! There could easily be some sort of algorithmic shadow-banning or targeting going on. More research needed...
Still, professor, it's spooky that you got results different from everybody else. Maybe it's geographical. Perhaps the search engines somehow set it up so that queries that came via certain domain name servers got treated differently.
I assume that you're in the NYC area. That's the part of the country, if not the world, that has by far the biggest concentration of people who would be sensitive to the topic.
good news, your substack comes up on the front page in my duckduckgo search - but not to the main page. First item that came up in my results was your piece on Steve Kirsch looking for someone to do an autopsy on that big pharma whistleblower who was murdered
@Mark - apologies for the geeky SEO explanation, but I think there is possibly an algorithmic component at work here.
I entered the following query in DDG: "Mark Crispin miller RFK Jr. Jan. 23, 2022" and did NOT see your recent post in the results, but rather numerous references to previous stories/comments on RFK Jr. from 2021
THEN, I modified the search using the advanced filters and set it to 'past month' and your recent story did indeed show up as the top result - but it was the version posted by Children's Health Defense.
This is not entirely unusual, and can likely be explained by a couple of search algorithm signals that give more weight to domains with higher domain authority (sites that have been around longer and have 'topical authority' for a given query)
In this instance, Children's Health Defense is outranking your own substack page for what search engine would flag as 'duplicate content' - they've crawled the internet and found the exact same article in more than one place, and they've chosed what they believe to be the most authoritative site for this specific query - based on a wide range of 'signals'
sometimes this happens if the search engine crawlers find a syndicated version before they crawl the original version - they tend to credit the first instance as the source, and they tend to crawl more active domains with higher 'domain authority' more frequently.
"Robert F Kennedy Jr." could also be a confounding factor for this query, particularly since it is the subject of both the story and the query used to find it. Children's Health Defense IS the authority for "Robert F Kennedy Jr.", so those pages will receive more weight for any query including that phrase.
There is a mechanism to help search engines better handle syndicated or duplicated content - its called the "canonical" META tag - which essentially signals to the crawlers that the content has been borrowed, and should be credited to the original source URL provided in the canonical tag (ideally, this tag would appear on the Children's Health Defense page containing your verbatim article).
Even with this tag, however, search engines algorithms will sometimes still default to a syndicated version - but in most instances, they honor the canonical and display it as the source in search results.
Non of this disproves suppression or censorship of your content - it very well could be happening - but there may be a (somewhat) rational explanation for what you're seeing.
I did an identical search on all four (And I never normally use Yahoo or Bing), and it came up on all four. May just be one has to use the right words? Mark Crispin Miller Substack
I've started using Yandex.com lately and it comes up there.
I have no problems finding your work on DuckDuckGo.
I searched and found you on substack using duck duck
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion either! There could easily be some sort of algorithmic shadow-banning or targeting going on. More research needed...
Still, professor, it's spooky that you got results different from everybody else. Maybe it's geographical. Perhaps the search engines somehow set it up so that queries that came via certain domain name servers got treated differently.
I assume that you're in the NYC area. That's the part of the country, if not the world, that has by far the biggest concentration of people who would be sensitive to the topic.
It comes up on duck-duck-go for me. Your website too.
good news, your substack comes up on the front page in my duckduckgo search - but not to the main page. First item that came up in my results was your piece on Steve Kirsch looking for someone to do an autopsy on that big pharma whistleblower who was murdered
@Mark - apologies for the geeky SEO explanation, but I think there is possibly an algorithmic component at work here.
I entered the following query in DDG: "Mark Crispin miller RFK Jr. Jan. 23, 2022" and did NOT see your recent post in the results, but rather numerous references to previous stories/comments on RFK Jr. from 2021
THEN, I modified the search using the advanced filters and set it to 'past month' and your recent story did indeed show up as the top result - but it was the version posted by Children's Health Defense.
This is not entirely unusual, and can likely be explained by a couple of search algorithm signals that give more weight to domains with higher domain authority (sites that have been around longer and have 'topical authority' for a given query)
In this instance, Children's Health Defense is outranking your own substack page for what search engine would flag as 'duplicate content' - they've crawled the internet and found the exact same article in more than one place, and they've chosed what they believe to be the most authoritative site for this specific query - based on a wide range of 'signals'
sometimes this happens if the search engine crawlers find a syndicated version before they crawl the original version - they tend to credit the first instance as the source, and they tend to crawl more active domains with higher 'domain authority' more frequently.
"Robert F Kennedy Jr." could also be a confounding factor for this query, particularly since it is the subject of both the story and the query used to find it. Children's Health Defense IS the authority for "Robert F Kennedy Jr.", so those pages will receive more weight for any query including that phrase.
There is a mechanism to help search engines better handle syndicated or duplicated content - its called the "canonical" META tag - which essentially signals to the crawlers that the content has been borrowed, and should be credited to the original source URL provided in the canonical tag (ideally, this tag would appear on the Children's Health Defense page containing your verbatim article).
Even with this tag, however, search engines algorithms will sometimes still default to a syndicated version - but in most instances, they honor the canonical and display it as the source in search results.
Non of this disproves suppression or censorship of your content - it very well could be happening - but there may be a (somewhat) rational explanation for what you're seeing.
I did an identical search on all four (And I never normally use Yahoo or Bing), and it came up on all four. May just be one has to use the right words? Mark Crispin Miller Substack
FYI: "dies suddenly"
https://www.theepochtimes.com/longtime-north-dakota-attorney-general-dies-unexpectedly_4244580.html?utm_source=verify_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-01-30-mt2&est=teklUfN%2BPwlmDNAxcRIST0FYH%2ByF48heS3jvn%2FIIUph5lU7TEN4PTfoM3cJYnG%2FPLmNLZA%3D%3D
I get it on google as well: Entering "mark crispin miller"
I am surprised. In my experience, google censors search results. I quit using google about 6 months ago and only use DuckDuckGo.
Might be that the name of your substack blog is an image?