[stebann]

I like DDG because it covers most of my basic search needs. I only use Google when I need services that are related to my location. Searching with Google is becoming less effective for me because the first pages almost always bring up ads or business-related content (like blogs that are sponsoring something or are trying to sell some product or service).

[franga2000]

Same here. Google is scarily good at giving me local results, but for general web searches, DDG is almost always more accurate. Google almost always takes my very specific query and stretches it too far, so the results are actually for something a lot more commonly searched for. I see this a lot with programming-related searches where I'm looking for a very specific problem and Google just gives me general tutorials on the topic while DDG usually has the correct SO answer in the answer card and all the other results are more relevant too.