I tried DDG for a couple of months on all my devices because privacy, but returned grudgingly to Google because of two issues: 1. I was using ‘!g’ a LOT to get

I tried DDG for a couple of months on all my devices because privacy, but returned grudgingly to Google because of two issues: 1. I was using ‘!g’ a LOT to get better results, especially when searching for coding hints. 2. The ‘-‘ exclusion prefix is borked on DDG: it does exactly what I want on Google (exclude this term) but on DDG it merely reduces the importance of the term, often by a negligible value. I really wanted my DDG experiment to pay off, but have had to trade some of my privacy for my own time. The savings in time and frustration minimization make Google worth my time, sadly.