Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013
I choose to give people the benefit of the doubt regarding their own points of view, so I am forced to consider the idea that "Duck Duck Go is a good search engine" is a true fact to some people.  That forces me to consider how this can possibly be true.  I find it's not true for me because of all the ways I typically use Google, DDG does almost none of them.  DDG doesn't have local results (search "Chinese" on Google and then on DDG).  DDG doesn't have recent news (search "Earthquake" on Google and then on DDG).  DDG does not have the coverage to answer a narrow technical question like "does a c++ derived class need to define its own destructor" (answer nowhere to be found on DDG; perfectly relevant stack overflow result is #1 on Google).  What DDG <i>does</i> have is plain old search results, albeit not with Google's quality and, of course, without any personalized input.<p>So for those of you who find DDG's generically mediocre retrievals sufficient, I am interested to know what you use for my other cases.  When you want to eat Chinese food, do you always use Yelp?  What do you use for recent event news?