1) DDG doesn't have local results meh 2) DDG doesn't have recent news Don't you love it when searching google with keywords vital to your business' placeme

1) DDG doesn't have local results meh 2) DDG doesn't have recent news Don't you love it when searching google with keywords vital to your business' placement in the results, a few News headlines show up, pushing you from 4 down to 8 or 9? Me neither, if I want news, I'll go to the BBC, NY Times, etc. 3) DDG does not have the coverage to answer a narrow technical question valid use case, yes 4) What DDG does have is plain old search results Yes! Remember in the early days when Google was just that? I do. Google has become something else in the meantime, and organic search results are not at the top of their priority list (read: advertising is, they spam my gmail account pretty much daily with advice on how I can reactivate the adwords campaigns that I suspended, how, if I call now, a Google rep. will advise me [try to upsell me in everyway possible] on how to get the most out of my campaigns, and so on). Google rules the search engine landscape (basically a monopoly); that's not a great situation as we (site owners, admins, etc.) are all completely beholden to a single corporation and are forced to play by their rules whether we agree with them or not.