Ddg results are so good. I dont get the hate on them. I try to go back to Google and the results are unusable.

It's extra funny because DDG is (mostly) Bing.

Really? For some reason, I really prefer DDG's results over Google's. Too much SEO spam for Google now (especially with AI).

DDG has this Reddit+ stack overflow thing that I quite like!

For generic factual stuff, I default to wikipedia. For opinions, it tends to be Reddit/Lemmy. If I have questions that are more of "tell me why my understanding of XYZ is wrong", then LLMs (the big ones) tend to be quite useful (yeah yeah, hate on me for this as much as you want).

I haven't had much problems with it? Can't really remember the last time I felt the need to try a different backup search engine. And, usually, if I did, I wouldn't find what I was looking for there, either.

Starpage, Qwant, and Brave search are all out there, just waiting for you.

It's Google ten years ago, which was already shit. They need to go further back on the timeline.

Duck duck go is made a LOT better if you specify a date range before SEO became as stupid as it did. AIslop just made the seo bullshit articles/pages go from bad to fubar.

Just try ducai

Yeah I didn’t like DDG either. Kagi is worth the price to have a better google-free experience,

Sadly, this is my experience too

I caved and switched when Google started giving me a full large chat window (not even just a small AI overview) by default when I ran a search.

And they show ads too.

Brave search over ddg