You’re right of course, despite the fact that I personally use Bing indirectly via DDG. That said, my personal anecdata is that, a few years ago, g! Google sea

You’re right of course, despite the fact that I personally use Bing indirectly via DDG. That said, my personal anecdata is that, a few years ago, g! Google search results would often find things that DDG didn’t - but today, those results rarely help (hence my OP). I am not super confident DDG has got better, but it certainly feels like Google’s quality has diminished.