No it's not. If anything it's a proxy for Bing, but that's one of many data sour...

No it's not. If anything it's a proxy for Bing, but that's one of many data sources[0] (another of which being DDG's own crawler[1]). I'm not aware of Google actually being one of those data sources; you might be thinking of StartPage, which is a proxy for Google.

[0]: https://duck.co/help/results/sources

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot