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>>rcoves+(OP)
As discussed extensively in the Bing thread [0] comments, this is because DDG uses Bing’s search index.

Microsoft has acknowledged this is in error...[1] (though the error seems to be that censorship meant to just apply to China is being applied everywhere)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8v9m/bing-censors-tank-man

>>varenc+FV
I didn't know DDG uses Bing's search index. What exactly is their value proposition over Bing then?

>>jakeva+7W
No profiling.

> DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by showing all users the same search results for a given search term.

Also note that DDG doesn’t just rely on Bing.

> DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

>>thih9+kY
Those other sources are mostly used for special results such as "Instant Answers".

DDG's main search results mostly come from Bing, as the source for that Wikipedia statement reveals:

https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

Anyone can see this for themselves by comparing a number of Bing and DDG searches.