They still use Bing, and others. https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ "These include hundreds of vertical

They still use Bing, and others. https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/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 also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google)."