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by dogma1138 2157 days ago
While they do have a crawler (DuckDuckBot) they primarily rely on other search engines the main ones being Bing and Yandex.

The fact that they return different results doesn’t mean much, firstly the bing API and web search return slightly different results especially if you use some of the extended parameters, secondly it doesn’t mean that they return results without additional post processing since they can have their own weighting/pageranking algorithms, filters etc. on top of Bing.

DDG isn’t just a UI for Bing but their results rely on Bing.