Wow. I had forgotten about them. I just typed "dogpile search engine" into Goodsearch (it's powered by Yahoo). I had to scroll down to the seventh result before I got to the actual Dogpile web address. As you and others have stated, several search engines show us what THEY want us to see, not what we asked for.
I like duckduckgo as you do. Will have to try dogpile again.
DDG is my default browser in Brave. Alas, it often does not make the result I want or know is out there. I then go to Safari with Google and my get the item I’m looking for at or near the top. These are non-political searches.