Comment by slongfield
4 years ago
If you're worried about it, you can buy searches directly from Bing ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing ). DDG makes no secret that the Bing search API is where they get their link and image results -- https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ .
Actually that's the only problem I have with DuckDuckGo. I don't have much trust in Google, but I have less trust in Microsoft.