DuckDuckGo Now Serves Up LGBT Legal Rights By Country Via Data From Equaldex
Searches for "LGBT rights" or "gay rights" with a country name display the country's marriage, adoption and other legal LGBT rights.
Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo is making it easy to find the legal rights for international LGBT communities using data from Equaldex, a collaborative database of LGBT rights.
Searching for “LGBT rights” or “gay rights” along with a country name will deliver an Equaldex tab at the top of the search engine’s results page, displaying the legal LGBT rights for the specific country:
(In a similar search for “gay rights United States,” the Equaldex tab at the top of the search results page was the last tab listed and had to be clicked to display the info.)
DuckDuckGo announced the search update this past weekend on Twitter:
Gay rights around the world? Find out instantly thanks to @Equaldex: https://t.co/bQzvP3F4iT #LGBT By @IsChrisW pic.twitter.com/LUsShQN6d9
— DuckDuckGo (@duckduckgo) November 15, 2015
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