I've had a similar experience. DDG won me over years ago with the killer feature of searching for the terms I entered. In recent years they have been following

I've had a similar experience. DDG won me over years ago with the killer feature of searching for the terms I entered. In recent years they have been following the same path as Google and ignoring/replacing search terms more and more, even if they are quoted. Google is an absolute dumpster fire these days though, so I'm sticking with DDG for now. It's such a shame that there isn't a single good search engine left in the world.