[makecheck]

It’s still my default but results are becoming noticeably worse. For instance, I used to be able to search for uncommon names and have them surface; now DDG seems to try really hard to assume I meant some dictionary word (frankly, a search engine clearly ignoring your actual search term becomes useless really quickly).

A critical feature though is that “g!” to Google will never return AMP pages; as long as that’s true I will always start from DDG.

[FabHK]

> DDG seems to try really hard to assume I meant some dictionary word (frankly, a search engine clearly ignoring your actual search term becomes useless really quickly)

I wonder whether that's due to users using mobile more and more, where typos are much more frequent. It is very annoying indeed, and coaxing it with quotes and/or plusses doesn't seem to yield consistent results.

[frosted-flakes]

Searching an esoteric error message with lots of search terms never returns anything relevant on DDG, so that's usually when I add the !g.

> A critical feature though is that “g!” to Google will never return AMP pages;

Why is that?