I've been using it pretty much exclusively for a lot longer than 2 years. I think part of the trick to switching is that google has got us trained as to how to

I've been using it pretty much exclusively for a lot longer than 2 years. I think part of the trick to switching is that google has got us trained as to how to search for stuff in a way that gets the results we're looking for. It took maybe a month to feel like I was searching effectively after switching, but I never found ddg's results to be appreciably less relevant at that point. On the upside, since ddg is less popular than google, people have put less effort into getting crap pages higher in the search results, though I'll concede it's gotten worse over the last couple of years. For me, the bangs are the killer app, combined with searching from the browser bar: I don't have to wait for e.g. google maps to load to do a maps search if I search !m pizza in Poughkeepsie.