It took me two goes to make DDG stick but since June of last year (just after the Snowden revelations started) I've been using DDG as my primary and nearly exclusive search engine.
It's much better than the first time around: more relevant, faster, and very few technical hangups.
I still fall back to Google periodically, especially for:
• Date-bounded search. DDG doesn't support this.
• Specialty searches: news, books, scholar. I've also keyed up custom searches for a bunch of sites in my browser.
• Rarely: I don't seem to find what I'm looking for on DDG. Usually first an !sp re-search, if that fails, !g. About 2 times out of 3, I still don't find what I'm looking for and return to DDG for more refinement.
It's much better than the first time around: more relevant, faster, and very few technical hangups.
I still fall back to Google periodically, especially for:
• Date-bounded search. DDG doesn't support this.
• Specialty searches: news, books, scholar. I've also keyed up custom searches for a bunch of sites in my browser.
• Rarely: I don't seem to find what I'm looking for on DDG. Usually first an !sp re-search, if that fails, !g. About 2 times out of 3, I still don't find what I'm looking for and return to DDG for more refinement.