I for one would love to know why there was a large spike in national security removals, and I'd also be interested to know if other search engines party anything similar to this.
Google's certainly not the search engine it once was, but for the most part it does at least tell you if it's censored the results. I mostly use Duck Duck Go, but there decidedly notice odd things occasionally -- like one or two results when searching for a part datasheet -- and that's not mentioning the whole Tianamen Square thing that happened recently.
Total of 485 most requests (291) are for google docs. Bad info sec maybe?
Looking at web search alone (national security).It does have a small spike similar sort of period in that 2016-06-30 to 2019-06-30 (in that its not been used at all in any other period! So of the 21 periods, its only been used in 7 of those periods)
Google's certainly not the search engine it once was, but for the most part it does at least tell you if it's censored the results. I mostly use Duck Duck Go, but there decidedly notice odd things occasionally -- like one or two results when searching for a part datasheet -- and that's not mentioning the whole Tianamen Square thing that happened recently.