[pleeb]

Google search has gone significantly down in quality over the last year or so. Even just searching for simple things only seems to yield articles from the same 20 or so major websites, and it’s worse if you’re looking for niche items. DuckDuckGo on the other hand is starting to give relatively better and more diverse results these days.

[bdefore]

The alternatives do not have better quality. I periodically go with DDG and realize I'm !g'ing everything.

[Shorel]

It totally depends on how do you write your search query:

If you write "teen movie about vampires" or something equally vague, Google is king.

If you write a direct quote or the exact error message, without typos, DDG gives better results. I can also put sentences in quotes to force an exact match. DDG is just an older school search engine, so old school tricks work better.

[narrator]

I agree Google has gone downhill. DuckDuckGo is much better now.