> rants about it are increasingly popular. 1. Never heard any rant about it outside tech circles. 2. I've given DDG many chances when Google failed to return

> rants about it are increasingly popular. 1. Never heard any rant about it outside tech circles. 2. I've given DDG many chances when Google failed to return satisfactory results. In those many cases DDG results were just about the same or even less relevant. Google changing the query? Well DDG either also changes it or returns irrelevant results not containing the query anyway. The single advantage of DDG I've noticed is that it doesn't CAPTCHA me on a VPN connection.