The question of what to use for web searching comes up every couple months or so, and I always suggest using Searxng, as others like u/KnilAdlez and u/hello_hello already did in this thread. It's best if you can self host it just because you can fine tune it exactly how you want, you won't get rate limited, and it's just always slightly better privacy-wise when you do it yourself, but if you don't want to set that up, you can just go directly to one of the public instances and use that right away. You can even tweak and fine tune those a bit if you click the settings button.

But yes, DDG is terrible. The CEO even openly stated they were "deprioritizing" (in other words, hiding) any results that might include "Russian propaganda" (in other words, anything that didn't align with NATO propaganda especially regarding Ukraine). And it would be very naive to think they stopped there as far as filtering of your results based on their political alignment. They also lie about being privacy-friendly when they are anything but. However that doesn't mean you should just go back to using Google, one of the great evils of the internet, as someone else suggested, especially when you can get Google search results (and any other free engine's results) without ever having to interact with it by using Searxng.