[narozik]

I concur that duckduckgo has still room for improvement in the local search area. It has already improved since I switched but I still find myself having trouble finding some local relevant results.

To me this is still an improvement over google always directing me to a localized version of their search and forcing me to tricks to get the global google web search.

And if ddg fails short, I can bang to another search engine or use the address bar to try my search elsewhere.

[gkya]

Personally, I have a whole lot of search engines I use with the Chrom(e|ium) omnibar: tra\t for google translate, !m\t for linux.die.net/man/ !g for google, !w\t for wikipedia and !d for duckduckgo. If I do not use any 'bangs', the search is dispatched to DDG. (\t for tab)

Even though I do not consider google harmful or hostile, centralizing all my access to info in one search provider sounds like a bad idea.