Comment by ronjouch

DDG gets a large amount of their results from Bing: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources...

Kagi I don’t know much about, but quickly reading about it, seems to indeed pay Goog.

> “While a week is a long time, is it possible that the other search engines just hadn't got around to indexing it yet?”

I doubt it, search engines these days are much faster, and this is double-confirmed by 1. articles linked in sibling comments, 2. reading https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt