DDG's results have always been bad in my experience. Unless I'm searching for the most basic, general stuff, more often than not I find more irrelevant results than relevant ones (if I find any relevant ones at all.)

Not to say that Google is much better. I've noticed a steady decline in relevance over the past 15 years.

These days if I want an actual answer to something, I still have to add site:reddit.com to my queries. That or ask an AI and hope it's not hallucinating some bullshit. It may be full of shit, but at least AI understands what I'm looking for.