[libso]

Purely from a search quality and end user experience stand, I'd choose Google or Bing over ddg. I have given ddg a shot for over a couple of months. But I found myself using other search engines more often than not for the lack be quality results.

[hnruss]

Can you give some specific examples of search queries in which Google had better results?

[newscracker]

Not the parent, but many searches on technical topics have better quality results on Google (or Startpage, which is a proxy to it).

DDG also doesn’t have searching by time for longer than the last month, whereas many a times when I look for technical stuff I also tend to look for things in the last one year, which Google and Startpage provide.

[hnruss]

It would be great if you could provide some concrete examples. I use DDG for technical searches almost daily and never encounter this problem.

[AlotOfReading]

Here's one I encountered today with an obscure debugging tool. Google gives me a bunch of relevant and useful links, all in the first few results. DDG has one semi-relevant page that links the actually relevant page and the rest are useless. That single result isn't even the first link.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bare+metal+arm-none-eabi+spr...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bare+metal+arm-none-eabi+sprite