DuckDuckGo is just a front end to Google. It strips out meta data that Google uses for marketing so that’s their shtick. All you’re doing is seeing Google results in a different location.
“rich and powerful liberal” - there’s nothing classically liberal about Stalinists. And that’s all these thugs are.
That's not true. In fact, they have fought each other in court more than once. And unlike Google, they do not track your movements on the web.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/duckduckgo-what-to-know-about-google-searchs-privacy-focused-rival/