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When I try that search string on DuckDuckGo, I see what looks to be pretty decent results, FWIW.

DDG is backed by the bing index

Only partially.

Also, even if it were just a Dr front for Bing, it doesn't change that I got perfectly reasonable results for the search string said to return unusable results from Bing, so

Not partially, totally now. They used Yandex before, but they stopped using it after the war I believe.

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