I felt like Google only worked well for things I'd done extensive searches on in the past. Like once they collected enough data on me to know WHAT I wanted to k

I felt like Google only worked well for things I'd done extensive searches on in the past. Like once they collected enough data on me to know WHAT I wanted to know about that topic the search results were better. Otherwise they were not very good. DDG feels like it gives me the same search results every time. Typically they are more helpful than google would have been early on but less helpful than googles were later on. This is entirely anecdotal... Anyone else experience something similar?