> DDG [...] no ads DDG does have ads, though? Perhaps they're less common and less intrusive than on Google, and only appear for searches that can meaningfully

> DDG [...] no ads DDG does have ads, though? Perhaps they're less common and less intrusive than on Google, and only appear for searches that can meaningfully have ads related to them (e.g. if I search for "thinkpad" I get one). But they exist. Unless your ad blocker is blocking them. But, to be honest, I personally rather let DDG show the ads. I want them to have their income. I also generally use DDG first, although Google is better for me at local results or non-English searches, so I sometimes do those on Google. It has also sometimes seemed like more complex searches with OR clauses or something similar work better in Google search. Also, while Google isn't particularly good at returning exactly what I search for nowadays (it used to be better, nowadays it seems to guess too much or return what Google wants you to want), I don't feel like DDG is better at that either, and sometimes I seem to need to run e.g. searches for error messages on Google instead of DDG because of that. But for most general searches, DDG does fine.