Anecdata, I've switched to DDG as my default search engine on both desktop and mobile. At the beginnning I would still go back to google for technical queries,

Anecdata, I've switched to DDG as my default search engine on both desktop and mobile. At the beginnning I would still go back to google for technical queries, but by now I have accepted that DDG is actually better at excluding spam/SEO stuff than google. Also the fact that it actually honours keywords like 'site:' 'domain:' is a huge time saver. The difference may be regional or specific to my areas of interest so perhaps your mileage may vary but to me DDG has improved substantially in the past 2 years whereas google just seems to increasingly just push for this natural language paradigm and discard my specific query, showing instead whatever popular approximation it chooses (I can only assume this probably saves them a tonne of resources and caters to >90% of users). The only feature I still feel google is unmatched is 'regional' online shopping discoverability. The 'Google Shopping' service is still the go to place for me to find specialist physical stores near me that also have an online retail front.