[wodenokoto]

In my experience it is better at "general" things. Search for a company and there will be a box describing what the company is, a specially marked box for the official homepage and a wikipedia article is often highly ranked.

However, once you start querying very specific things, it tends to fall apart. Just today I wanted to see if the a particular company utilizes any Machine Learning and searched for company-name machine learning. No top hit contained all three keywords or anything related to AI. On Google the top hit was a company research institute and contained all 3 keywords.

[raldi]

Can you give an example term?

[art-w]

You probably don't care what a "Tiger" search would return, but I find the DDG results vastly more informative:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tiger

Recommendations: animals, military, people, movies, bands, organizations, technology, ... with a pretty picture, a subtitle, and a short description.

Top results: Wikipedia, Tiger Direct (a shop), WWF, Defenders of Wildlife, Tiger Woods, Detroit Tigers (baseball), ... (infinite list.)

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tiger

Single recommendation: Tiger (Animal), with a pretty picture, the life expectancy and the scientific name.

Top results: Tiger Airways, Wikipedia, Tiger Stores (a shop), WWF, Tiger Direct (another shop), Defender of Wildlife, ...

Special results "in the News": Tiger Airways, Tiger Woods.

I've been happily using DDG for almost a year now, but I still use `!g` regularly because it does get confused sometimes (point is: no search engine is perfect, but DDG makes it easy to redirect your search elsewhere.) I switched because google was pushing g+ too hard, experimenting with the presentation, customizing the result list based on my profile, and it was breaking my flow (like the popup "make google your default search engine", I get why they do it, but it required unwanted attention.) Somehow DDG convinced me that they would be less invasive.