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.