Exactly. I still use !g with DDG if I can't find something; but 1/3 of the time DDG works just fine. Back in the day you'd go to Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, et. al.

Exactly. I still use !g with DDG if I can't find something; but 1/3 of the time DDG works just fine. Back in the day you'd go to Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, et. al. and you'd get different results! There was a difference with search engines that would leads you to all kinds of interesting stuff. Today it's all monolithic. It's going to be either indexed by Google or on some mega walled garden like FB/Twitter/Tumblr/etc. We need more alternative search engines. I personally stopped using the verb "Googled" and try to say "Searched for" instead. The world needs to be more than just Google.