First off, we do not remove any results ourselves for political purposes and in fact we have been banned in China for many years for that very reason. What you're referring to was a temporary bug in our image search results from Bing that they promptly fixed. If they hadn't fixed it promptly then we would have taken further action. That seems hardly cause to abandon us.
That said, super slow results I can understand :). But they are super fast according to all our metrics, so something else must be going on. There was a bug in DarkReader recently causing our page to be slow that was recently fixed -- not sure if that is related. In any case, if you want to email me (my email is my profile) then we can try to get to the bottom of it.
If Bing censors the results, DDG is automatically going to do it too. I don't think yall have your own web results. You buy it from Microsoft if I'm not wrong. If bing serves ddg censored results how would ddg try to "in-censor" the results??? is it even possible?
We actually always had a bunch of our own stuff, and still do, as well as work with other partners. For example, the number one module on mobile is local, and we don't get any local stuff from Bing at all. Similarly, the number one module desktop is knowledge graph, and we don't get that from Bing at all either. And yes, you can re-insert results if they are indeed censored, but Bing doesn't really intentionally censor anything either as far as we can tell or we'd here a lot more about it. Occasionally something drops out of the index for some kind of bug reason that gets fixed.
That said, super slow results I can understand :). But they are super fast according to all our metrics, so something else must be going on. There was a bug in DarkReader recently causing our page to be slow that was recently fixed -- not sure if that is related. In any case, if you want to email me (my email is my profile) then we can try to get to the bottom of it.