My own usage scenario is reflecting the changing landscape I think: - I've noticed DDG's quality slowly improve, while Google's slowly decrease. But Google is

My own usage scenario is reflecting the changing landscape I think: - I've noticed DDG's quality slowly improve, while Google's slowly decrease. But Google is still on top. - When I really want to search for something, I'm using a mix of Google, Yandex, DDG, and sometimes another weird one like Dogpile.com The times they are a-changin', but slowly, over time. It's quite ironic now that when I want to do some Internet searching, I will use search engines - NOT (just) Google. If I want to 'use google', I use Google. They're definitely not a pure search engine anymore, for better or for worse. What they offer is nice very often, but sometimes all I want is the ability to do some deep searching and nothing be withheld from me. Google increasingly censors and filters out information for an increasing number of their own reasons, none of which I ever asked for. That's not why I fell in love with the Internet. Google is now fundamentally out of sync with the soul of the Internet at the core level. Thankfully, the Internet is bigger than it.