Yes. IMO DDG has been better for general questions for a long time. Google remained better for programming questions for significantly longer (I speculate this

Yes. IMO DDG has been better for general questions for a long time. Google remained better for programming questions for significantly longer (I speculate this may be because Google's own programmers used it, and complained when the results sucked :-)), but now it's not. Not really. Like you, I still use Google as a long shot, but that's become quite rare. I sometimes use Bing for Microsoft-specific questions, if DDG doesn't give me what I want. I have the sense that Bing covers Microsoft a little better than the others do. I have no real solid evidence for this, but it seems plausible on the surface.