My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google
The elephant in the room: DDG's search results are primarily sourced from Bing.<p>Unfortunately, as long as DDG depends on third-party crawlers, the suggestions to improve search results (& "the algorithm") seem far-fetched & naive.<p>(DDG does have its own crawler, DuckDuckBot, but apparently it's only used for very specific functionality.)
<a href="https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/" rel="nofollow">https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...</a><p>> For DuckDuckGo, it may be tricky to resolve the issue permanently as long as it relies on Bing.
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-restores-pirate-sites-and-points-to-bing-220419/" rel="nofollow">https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-restores-pirate-sites-an...</a><p>> According to various online forums, the best way to ensure your site gets indexed by DuckDuckGo is to submit it to Bing and Yandex.
<a href="https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/" rel="nofollow">https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disa...</a>