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That would be really bad, because DDG is a search engine on top of the Bing API.

Well, boy do I feel dumb.

It's not just Bing results. They use their results instead of running their own content crawlers, but they use some own algorithms for ranking, spam filtering and so on. Also, Bing is not their only source, if I'm not mistaken.

I wonder what percentage of ddg results come from bing, is this information public?

I wonder how DDG are going to respond to the proposed changes to the Bing API pricing

Maybe its just me but when I last tried DDG I found it to be awfully slow compared to Google and Bing.

I can second this data point.

I love DDG, and tried it out as my default search engine for about a month, but just got tired of how slow it was compared to Google and switched back to Google as my default (on DDG I found myself adding "!google" about 30% of the time anyway). If DDG was faster, I'd probably still be using it.

Try Blekko.com