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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
(tech.slashdot.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
DDG is largely Bing search at the backend, unless I'm much mistaken. They do value-add work around privacy, but in the basic sense of "does a DDG search return good results", it's largely the same as Bing.
dang, I didn't know that. But like someone in the above comments has said, maybe the use a different index?