The other day I simply couldn’t recall the name Hydroxychloroquine. So I did a Brave search. “Off-label drugs to treat Covid.”
Neither Ivermectin (IVN) nor Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) turned up.
So I tried “two off-label drugs to treat Covid.”
Again, only the System approved drugs turned up, and neither were “off-label” to boot.
So I then resorted to “two off-label drugs used to treat covid like ivermectin”
And even this didn’t bring up HCQ.
However, Brave provides the option “news from the Left” and “news from the Right.” So I specified the latter this time. It worked.
I hope this helps the reader who has given up trying to get past the biases built in to seemingly all AI. Because Brave.com has the added benefit of not wishing to be caught lying (as Google seemingly cares not if we notice), it will spill the beans at least enough to obtain the lead you are looking for.
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Thank you so much! I had been getting so frustrated, trying search engine after search engine to find a reference to something I know happened in the recent past, yet didn’t seem to exist in any search engine. I was having to sit and stew on it for a couple hours (or more), and when I did recall the exact name of the thing I was trying to find, the damnable thing is every search engine finds it.
“Oh, that’s what you wanted to know. We weren’t hiding it from you, we just didn’t understand what you were asking.” Rat bastards.
That’s despicable.
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— DD
Along a similar line, the news site allsides.com rates all of their sources on a scale left to right and will often give you several choices for a given issue.