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Try searching for the same thing from your computer and your phone and you will get different results. Also, their results come from Bing so any improvement happens at Microsoft.

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They do use Bing, but not solely Bing. DDG isn't just a frontend to a different search engine.

It's a bing frontend with a few special cases handled differently. For most queries, you get bing results. Easy to check by comparing results.

I see Russian sites from Yandex all the time on DDG.

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