When I'm bored I sometimes like to compare search terms on Google vs DuckDuckGo just for shits and grins. A few months ago I did "conservative news". DDG's first 10 results were all conservative oriented media. In Google's first results, only 4 of them were conservative oriented. The 6 others were leftist rags. I have a screenshot somewhere I'll have to find it.
Yes, I've also done this many times.
Google has been biasing search results for years now.
For a while I had a link with my posts that suggested DDG.
It takes a long time for ideas and concepts to become mainstream and for people to change old habits. Even harmful ones.
Still a LONG way to go, but DDG is having year over year of increased traffic.
I'm just bracing for Google to offer DDG a buy out they can't refuse. They've already tried and the owner of DDG so far has held firm on NO to Google.