i dont know their internals but its very clearly not. You can try side by side. Extremely basic searches fail. It seems intermittent and inconsisent. Maybe their backend to Bing fails and the fallback is terrible. Just guessing
Right this moment it seems to work. 2 Days ago Id search for something basic like "CSS colors" and not get back a single usable result
Are you perhaps getting AI-generated trash that is just SEO optimized? I've noticed a TON more of these results in DDG and Google lately. You can now block those websites completely from DDG as of very recently (or at least I only noticed it very recently, and it's a true godsend to filter out all this AI-generated trash).
Weird, DDG supposedly uses Bing which should be indexing everything. Then again this is Microsoft, who can't even get local search working - Win11 lately can't even find Add/Remove Programs on my PC, I have to go through Settings and click 18 times before I find it.
re blocking: after every search in the upper-right corner of each link I see 3 dots which opens a menu and offers "block this site from all results".
Right this moment it seems to work. 2 Days ago Id search for something basic like "CSS colors" and not get back a single usable result