I don't think people realize that DuckDuckGo is a meta search engine, they don't have their own algorithm. Instead they are using whatever is cheapest at the mo

I don't think people realize that DuckDuckGo is a meta search engine, they don't have their own algorithm. Instead they are using whatever is cheapest at the moment. It's very hard to get better results if you can't modify the algorithms core logic. edit: okay maybe cheapest is a wrong word, the more correct term would be best price/result ratio. Some time ago they were using Yandex as their result provider, at the moment I don't know who their provider is but I think that could be found by browsing through the about us pages (or not as now they are so big they can negotiate deal where they don't have to disclose their source). (edit: this is what they disclose at https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources) > DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we primarily source from Yahoo!, and in some regions and scenarios, Yandex and Bing.