DDG uses Google. If they grow too big Google will just switch them off..

amf12 · on April 23, 2018

DDG, in fact, uses Bing. [1][2]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/4lgda4/duckduck...

[2] https://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/01/duckduckgo-yahoo-partnersh...

ekovarski · on April 23, 2018

Curious if there is a source for this; I was just looking at this the other day and couldn't confirm they use Google but they did state that they use over 400 sources. Thx

kwoff · on April 22, 2018

Exactly why Google needs to be reined in.