Makes sense. The DDG search index is drawn from Bing which, like Google, no longer crawls the web properly. And it seems they've realised this and, as of Mar 2026, have started working on building their own insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales...
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Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo is building its own web search index (Ep.22)
Why are we building our own web search index? And why does it matter?