Summary
At least 126 people have been confirmed dead and 188 others injured as of Tuesday night after a magnitude-6.8 earthquake jolted Dingri County in the city of Xigaze in China's Xizang Autonomous Region at 9:05 a.m. on Tuesday.
The earthquake emergency response in Xizang has been raised to level I, the highest level, the region's emergency command center announced Tuesday.
To date, around 30,400 people have been relocated to temporary settlements, and all the injured people have been treated.
on a related note, duckduckgo clearly on that #censorship because :
I even put CGTN in the query and nope. Only western media outlets. So laughable since I started using duckduckgo to avoid google's tracking, but even google will relent and provide me a link to CGTN
Any recommendations for search engines that you are planning to use?
Maybe, it is time for me to also move from western search engines as well.
Unfortunately I don't think I can completely forgo google for its ability to give decent results to "info + reddit" queries and its indexing of xtwitter (which I don't use but sometimes need/want to find something). I'm a Chinese heritage speaker and have been working on improving my reading skills for the last 5+ years so I will probably (try to) transition to using sogou, baidu, toutiao etc... baidu isn't free of the AI scourge but at least you have to opt-in rather than being forced to see it top and center. However, searching for info in English or about anyone from the anglophone sphere of the internet (contemporary western ML writers for example) is difficult or even outright impossible. Also, the business model of most/all search engines is adverts or otherwise eyeballs (for news, etc) so that's just unavoidable these days at some level.
Yandex is ru-based and seems to have decent English-language results, from my ~5 minutes of usage. We'll see..
Welcome to hear any one else having other search engine alternatives also.
I think I should start learning Mandarin.
You should. Not even just for using better search engines/internet resources (though that is a good reason too). It's an incredibly useful language to learn.
It also isn't as difficult as people make it out to be. The grammar is very easy and logical.
I just use yandex. That search engine will give me both russian and western sources, which i apreciated (for the ukraine war situation).