[freeloop2]

Do you have actual evidence this is the case, or is it just supposition? I've been using DuckDuckGo for the last week and whenever I was unable to find something relevant I'd try the same query in Google and also come up short.

Even if Google is better overall, if you can use another search engine and get by, you are helping loosen their grip on their monopoly and give other search engines a path to improve. If you are unable to create a competing search engine yourself, that is at least one way you can help.

[adrianN]

I also use DDG as my main search engine. For me at least the results are much worse than Google's, not only for obvious things where Google benefits from the additional information they have about me, for example localizations, but also for normal queries. Quite often some statcounter sites rank above the actual sites that I want.

[gardnr]

Same here. I often use ⌘-l g TAB to get google results. Especially when searching for programming related things.

I do appreciate the wikipedia pages and the weather from DDG.