Bing exists?

Until recently EdgeHTML existed

Barely.

Does it?

I mean it's bigger than DDG?

Well only because DDG aggregates some of their stuff plus Microsoft ship everything to glue into Bing (windows login screens / default browser config / Cortana / XBox).

I know no one who consciously uses it to do anything other than my mother who uses it search for Google.

If none of the other default integrations exist it'd be dead on it's arse.

There are memes out there about people using it to search for porn and I've seen it referenced in forums, so there's at least one use case. Although why anybody has to actively /search/ for porn is beyond me.

Well it's not like you find it in a bush these days so you have to put some effort in.

> There are memes out there about people using it to search for porn and I've seen it referenced in forums

From what I've heard their video search is superior.

> Although why anybody has to actively /search/ for porn is beyond me.

Specific tastes?

I use it consciously! I'd rather not support Google, and after a few comparison searches between DDG and Google back in the day I used Google, I found DDG to be far inferior.

Plus Bing has nice background images (I use it as my homepage).

I use it exclusively.

DDG just uses Bing, the existence of DDG is irrelevant to this, Bing is what counts.

Agreed, and you shouldn't be down voted for it.

I like DDG, and use it, but it's mostly a pretty front end on a now-deprecated Bing API. If Bing shut down, DDG wouldn't be far behind.

I've never seen a DDG crawler in any of my logs, though I've seen plenty of Google and Bing (and others). DDG does some nice instant answer and bang stuff, but the actual deep search results are all Bing (and maybe Yandex?)

Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664967

The DDG crawler is not used for organic results, only for stuff like the widgets. All organic results are from Bing and Yahoo (and possibly Yandex).