Not OP, but there is value in having competition. DDG is just a bing front-end. The big search engines have a major problem with the quality of results going down, as the internet is SEOd to death. The companies behind these engines don't seem to be very eager to fix it, they are just hoping to replace them with AI. We've also seen how these engines have been turned into ad platforms, which changes the incentives... Instead of ranking quality, they are ranking who pays more.
Taking a different approach to ranking results that isn't ad driven, that can punish AI generated content and low quantity results would bring a huge value.