> Things like error messages, queries involving the name of a programming language etc. are often just not as good in DDG. I don't have any problem with those

> Things like error messages, queries involving the name of a programming language etc. are often just not as good in DDG. I don't have any problem with those types of searches on DDG. Even obscure error messages turn up most of the time, and when they don't turn up in DDG they don't turn up in Google either. Even when I do searches for a relatively less popular language like Haxe, I don't have trouble finding what I'm looking for. I only remember a handful of times over the 3+ years I've been using DDG that Google returned an ancient IRC log referencing my issue while DDG didn't return anything, but just the same I've had Google return irrelevant results while DDG gave me exactly what I was looking for. Since my anecdotes offsets your anecdotes, the only conclusion is that anecdotes are useless to compare these things :)