[username90]

> Duck feels more like the old Google, the one I used for 20 years

That is the whole point, old Google was easy to replicate and therefore didn't cement their market position, if they still had that then why not just switch to Bing or DDG? New Google requires thousands of top level experts to tune and test things until it gives sensible results to stupid queries and is therefore impossible to compete with.

[technofiend]

Unfortunately it also sometimes gives stupid answers to sensible queries but Google removed most knobs that let power users tune results. Instead they should leverage that expertise to better inform non-tweaked queries and results.