[mmichaels1970]

Do a Duck search, get identical.

That's because Duck is a browser, not a search engine. And I believe that browser uses a google API to perform it's search function. That would explain why Duck and Google would return identical resulsts....you're using google on both. DDG's claims are to browsing and search privacy. In other words, a search on Chrome tracks where you went and when you went there. Where DDG claims to not keep track of that.

In my experience, a lot of sites don't work properly or at all on DDG because they require cookies which DDG, by default, doesn't accept.

DDG's claims to complete browsing privacy seem to have been weakened as of late and bear watching. I don't trust that anything is private anywhere on any browser or on any search engine.

[Openurmind]

“That’s because Duck is a browser, not a search engine.”

Did you mean the opposite?

Because DDG is indeed a search engine and not a browser.