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There is SearXNG, it's open source and decentralized but AFAIK the different instances don't really share information between them. I'm personally interested in trying it, but I'm apprehensive about the fact that it's really hard to know whether a particular instance is trustworthy, and while it's possible I don't think it makes much sense to host it myself.
https://searx.space/
I'll add that it's a meta-search engine rather than something that does the actual searching itself. That's still useful, but you're limited by the quality of the upstream search engines (including google, duckduckgo, qwant, etc).
The gain from self-hosting is that you have more control over the results, and can do things like redirect social media sites to privacy friendly alternatives, and create your own bangs (or even add your own custom search engines).
Probably not a massive privacy gain though, although if you host the instance behind a privacy VPN queries won't be associated with your IP at least.
Does DDG really generate its own searches? I was under the impression that it uses the Bing API. Maybe that's outdated or only applies to certain types of search?
Random SearX Redirector
Just an FYI, but this domain appears to be on HaGeZi's Badware Hoster Blocklist
Edit: ah, I see now. Its a free webhost so there may be badware hosted elsewhere on it