I don't really see your point, I search almost exclusively through DDG and almost always get good results, even with very specific subjects. Seldom does a query

I don't really see your point, I search almost exclusively through DDG and almost always get good results, even with very specific subjects. Seldom does a query that yields no usable results on DDG has better outcome on Google (I'd say less than a dozen times in years) Perhaps the issue is how you phrase your query. I tend to use only keywords which I find relevant. Also DDG does not remove the quotation marks from queries(which is a big plus in my opinion). There is a specific syntax for news (sort:date, IIRC) albeit it has a smaller index. I don't have the numbers, but I believe DDG indexes a sufficient portion of the internet to answer satisfactorily a great portion of my queries. Sites like StackOverflow must be as indexed as Google at about 100%. The differential must be on sites with a very low pagerank which are quite irrelevant for the great majority of queries. If your query returns more than half a dozen pages on google it's probable DDG would also yield usable results. >>>EDIT: region:cn returns results from Chinese sites I prefer this to the alternative of the search engine guessing if I want information about Chinese people and culture, Chinese restaurants, or from China, but I guess Google adds value after you train it a bit and learns what do you usually mean in your queries, while on the other hand DDG requires that you learn how to use it effectively. This value added from Google comes at the price of privacy which is much more valuable for me.