Random thought, based especially on using DuckDuckGo for two years: Search engine isn’t singular, it’s plural. (1) Search engine for something I know exists.

Random thought, based especially on using DuckDuckGo for two years: Search engine isn’t singular, it’s plural. (1) Search engine for something I know exists. (2) Search engine for finding something new. There’s a market for both, but you don’t have to solve both problems with the same product. Sometimes I switch to Google for the former, but the latter works well enough for me that I don’t care what else Google would’ve shown me. More often than not, my feeling is Google would only have shown me more ads in addition to whatever I could already find elsewhere.