[breiti]

> I have been using DDG for roughly 2 years now and I always search for things technical or non-technical there first. If it does not give any result or when I know it's very technical I simply add !g to the end

I am the same, but i default to !sp (startpage.com) first.

They claim:

> You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. [...]

[DyslexicAtheist]

you do know that startpage.com "is now owned by an ad company" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

[breiti]

You say this as Google isn't an ad company x).

But yes, i know. I still use it, because i trust those guys to have a good-enough judgement on this. https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/

Maybe they're not perfect, but i'm convinced they are a hell lot better than submitting my data to Google. ;)