[greysonp]

I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for almost 2 years now. Never had a problem. There were a couple times early on when I was like "these results are bad, lemme check Google", only to find out Google's results were pretty much the same. DDG just buys results from other providers, so their results are pretty much always going to be acceptable.

Edit: Just wanted to say I'm not try to discount your experience, I just don't want to dissuade future people from trying out other search engines, when I think switching search engines is one of the biggest and easiest privacy wins a lot of people can do.