> They pretty clearly only talk about instant answers there.
They talk about both, "traditional links" are not instant answers: "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)."
> Try some searches for yourself and see that the results are basically identical to bing
I disagree on your definition of "basically identical". Google and Bing results (in a private window) are more similar to me than DDG and Google:
DDG has more "monkey" definitions than both Google and Bing, all have Wikipedia, all have cool.monkey (in different ways), Bing + Google have monkey.exchange and surveymonkey, the video's the same on Google and Bing, all of them have some unique links (such as monkey.vision and monkeyworlds.com)
Also two of the results ("Mokey's Show" youtube video and 2pchat.monkey.cool) are not on the first 10 pages of Bing's results, if at all.
They talk about both, "traditional links" are not instant answers: "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)."
> Try some searches for yourself and see that the results are basically identical to bing
I disagree on your definition of "basically identical". Google and Bing results (in a private window) are more similar to me than DDG and Google:
Bing:
1. https://www.monkey.exchange
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cool.monkey.an...
3. https://www.monkey.cool
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
5. https://pt.surveymonkey.com/
(change page)
6. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cool.monkey.an...
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0hyYWKXF0Q (TONES AND I - DANCE MONKEY (OFFICIAL VIDEO))
8. https://www.britannica.com/animal/monkey
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)
10. https://www.monkey.vision/
DDG:
1. https://www.monkey.cool
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
3. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cool.monkey.an...
4. https://www.britannica.com/animal/monkey
5. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monkey
6. 2pchat.monkey.cool
7. https://www.livescience.com/27944-monkeys.html
8. https://a-z-animals.com/animals/monkey/
9. https://www.monkeyworlds.com/
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTrnSJLXGBg (Mokey's Show - Is Not Christmas - YouTube)
Google (after changing to english bc they don't respect browser prefs...):
1. https://www.monkey.exchange
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
(Videos links)
3. https://www.motociclismoonline.com.br/noticias/honda-monkey-... ("localized" news bc I can't get rid of it)
4. https://www.linkedin.com/company/monkeyexchange
5. https://motor1.uol.com.br/news/515705/honda-monkey-125-2022-... (also localized)
6. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cool.monkey.an...
7. https://hbr.org/1999/11/management-time-whos-got-the-monkey
8. https://www.britannica.com/animal/monkey
9. https://www.surveymonkey.com/user/sign-up/
10. https://www.surveymonkey.com/
DDG has more "monkey" definitions than both Google and Bing, all have Wikipedia, all have cool.monkey (in different ways), Bing + Google have monkey.exchange and surveymonkey, the video's the same on Google and Bing, all of them have some unique links (such as monkey.vision and monkeyworlds.com)
Also two of the results ("Mokey's Show" youtube video and 2pchat.monkey.cool) are not on the first 10 pages of Bing's results, if at all.
(Edit: formatting and the two results)