I use DDG, but whenever I have the sort of search intent you outline, I simply append !g and search Google instead. It's also easier for me to use DDG and appen

I use DDG, but whenever I have the sort of search intent you outline, I simply append !g and search Google instead. It's also easier for me to use DDG and append !gi to look at images, rather than run a Google search and then switch to image search.