That's interesting. By location, do you mean the box that says "All Regions"? I get the same results on DDG (different from Bing) whether I set that to "All Regions" or "US (English)".
Once it is set to my country (France), then I get almost identical results.
I don't know how to deactivate this feature on Bing, so I could not compare Bing and DDG in the case where the "location" setting would be ticked off on both sites.