Use startpage.com instead. It was created way before DDG by Katherine Albrecht's privacy-rights group called Caspian.
Come to think of it, haven't heard any news from/about Albrecht lately. She used to have a local radio show in TX. She was battling cancer for a while… but anyway startpage.com is still working.
Startpage searches google for you through a proxy, so google doesn't know who's doing the search. You can connect via proxy to any of the sites your search brings up too. Startpage servers are in the Netherlands, where privacy-rights laws are strong (so Albrecht said)