DDG is good for general queries. One thing I often do is to see what TLD a site is using before blindly typing it into my address bar. "Is it slashdot.org or sl

DDG is good for general queries. One thing I often do is to see what TLD a site is using before blindly typing it into my address bar. "Is it slashdot.org or slashdot.com?". For more complicated and long-tail queries, Google is your man, and DDG redirects those searches with a simple `!g` bang query.