You missed my point, which was that I don't mind being more specific in my searches if it means my privacy is respected. DDG doesn't work for you and you don't

You missed my point, which was that I don't mind being more specific in my searches if it means my privacy is respected. DDG doesn't work for you and you don't mind Google having a full profile of your web browsing habits in order to better target you for their advertising business? That's fine, but DDG is not without merit just because it doesn't work out of the box exactly as you expect it to. EDIT: And as a response to the other comment pointing our that you didn't know what ED was in the first place, Google is not the be all end all of knowledge... type "ED !w" and figure it out based on the listing in Wikipedia. This is an inconvenience that I don't mind, that's my entire point.