[bollockitis]

I’ve been using DSG exclusively for about a year now and I've had the opposite experience: I've been amazed at how relevant the results have been. Occasionally, when struggling to find something, I'll use Google (via !g) and the results are, more often than not, mostly the same. It's rare for me to use Google search these days and when I do I'm annoyed by the assumptions it makes about my queries.

[OrwellianChild]

Fellow DDG user, but your observation about Google Searches is interesting... It may be the case that your limited use of Google is contributing to the poor assumptions it makes about your queries. The more Google tracks you, the better it can anticipate your intent.

Of course this is at the expense of privacy, filter bubble, etc. Still funny to think that Google may be over-optimizing around the presumption of an available browsing history. If true, Google could very well be degrading the anonymized experience on its sites. Could backfire in a more privacy-conscious future...