FWIW, DDG search in my experience has gotten vastly better in the past year or so. It <i>used</i> to be that 90% of my searches ended up repeated with !g to go to google, but nowadys I&#x27;d guess that&#x27;s like 30%, and even among those, half the time google&#x27;s answer quality ends up the same.<p>The only cases where Google is predictably and consistenly superior are 1. error&#x2F;diagnostic messages: DDG still sucks at precision search, and quotes are not always the answer; 2. queries that require Natural Language Processing: Google understands stuff like &quot;the bad moustache guy from XYZ series&quot; where I myself have only a vague idea of what I&#x27;m looking for.<p>And oftentimes the Instant Answers end up offsetting somewhat poorer quality of results, so kudos to DDG for coming up with those.<p>(None of this is meant to disqualify your experience though, just expressing my own joy at their results having improved for my use case.)