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You can often extract lots of extra information from the URL, most importantly the date of publishing (y/m/d).

Agreed. For example, search for 'anaconda python'. In google, the second result is very obviously the download page for anaconda. In DDG? Good luck discovering that. Just one example that popped immediately to mind.

That's more the fault of the site itself for not using title tags properly, but, yeah I do agree that a full URL option would be ideal.

Google does one thing right that makes me quit DDG: put the URL next/below the title. What and where together.

90+% I don't need the Why and parsing over it to find the URL is distracting.