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DuckDuckGo isn’t really a search engine, it’s a website that uses bing’s api.
Not just Bing, but nearly every search engine you've ever used https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=
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Pagerank was mostly based on inbound links. A popularity contest with some nuance is just that. Nothing is meritocratic including any Google algo.
It's not merely a democratic vote, where the most links wins, but what the algorithm does is evaluate the links based on the popularity of the originating domain. In other words, meritocratic rating. You can apply the algorithm to any graph, and what it does is find the most influential nodes.
Your explanation is not “meritocratic”. The wealthy and powerful largely stay on top with the nuance you provided. The popular have more popular. are able to make what they link to more powerful and thus more popular. There is no meritocracy there.