[lhuser123]

You kind of describe the reason I can’t get rid of Google.

Many people keep saying that DuckDuckGo is good enough. But no matter how hard I try use it for everything, always end up googling a few questions. Many times, Google knows what I’m looking for better than myself.

[wolco]

This is the reason why google isn't working as well. Google tries to guess what I want in doing so hides the sites I do want.

[ncallaway]

DuckDuckGo will let you prefix any query with "!g" and redirect that query to Google.

That was the feature that let me switch everything over to DDG. DDG works great for 80-85% of my search queries. For the others, I just prefix with "!g" because I suspect Google will give me better results.

[teejmya]

I've recently learned that it does not have to be a prefix. If you put !g anywhere in the query as its own word, DDG will do the thing.

[pier25]

I agree which is why I switched to Startpage and enjoy Google results without privacy concerns:

https://www.startpage.com/

[jotm]

Yeah Google Search results have gone down in quality... but everyone else is worse still :/