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by mcyukon 2291 days ago
I've been using DDG for about the last 2 years. The only thing that throws me for a loop once in awhile is that some local businesses only have their open hours entered with Google. Searching for that business in DDG will show their address but not their open hours. Their hours are also not listed on facebook, Yelp, or TripAdvisor. Where as on Google, it's right there in their little knowledge panel on the right.

A business where this is happening: Pho 5 Star Vietnamese Cuisine - Whitehorse Yukon

Other than that, most of the time DDG gets me better results than Google. I work in the trades and look up a lot of tools/tool reviews and google results are a dumpster fire of bad results full of these odd adsites that all look similar, have obvious generated URLs, and clone amazon descriptions and reviews. They are also ranked high on page 1 of Googles search results, and the trust worthy sites are getting pushed down or even to the next page.