You approach with first using DDG then !g is my way too. But I rarely need to use it, and when I do, I find that Google tends to serve roughly the same pages. I

You approach with first using DDG then !g is my way too. But I rarely need to use it, and when I do, I find that Google tends to serve roughly the same pages. It's annoying when DDG skips words like you say, but then I just add + in front of the word. I actually find DDG to be much better at technical/programming queries.