After DDG's earlier announcements delivering the image that DDG then severed their uneasy dependency from Bing, this makes them look really bad. Retorting with

After DDG's earlier announcements delivering the image that DDG then severed their uneasy dependency from Bing, this makes them look really bad. Retorting with mumbo jumbo about secondary stuff like flights, business listings etc that are just related to website retention rather than their core structure as an apparent search engine, just makes it worse. I still believe DDG has a place, in being a more privacy-focused aggregator to Bing and a few other sources, but this did shatter the previous image of DDG having a large degree of autonomy for me.