Depends what you are using your search engine for. Getting the actually most popular thing in the area where there's a lot of competition? They're good at that.

Depends what you are using your search engine for. Getting the actually most popular thing in the area where there's a lot of competition? They're good at that. But when trying to find some obscure string in a context it's just hopeless. They seemed to have completely given up on the idea of being able to somewhat grep through the web. I often won't get results for queries which DDG and Bing have pages for. Which I don't get, they probably could afford to have even a completely separate backend for quoted strings and store way more data than DDG.