I think Yahoo will buy Bing within 3 months after MSFT brings in the new CEO. MSFT will be more focused on the enterprise market and Yahoo will use Bing to fight google.
But DDG gets its raw results from Bing?
Yep - but they have a strong "brand layer" (coining this now).
"Absolutely no brand-cuffs"
Is DDG really that much of a name brand outside nerd circles? Maybe I just have weird friends, but almost no one I know IRL has ever heard of DDG, while quite a few have heard and used Bing.
First you get the nerds, then you get the nerds friends, then you get the friends of friends, then you get the parents? :P