> I stopped using Google search years ago as it became nothing but useless results that led to garbage I wasn't looking for.
it really is kind of shocking; anecdote: i was doing a search for an obscure error message and the links i got on duck duck go was matching that exact message whereas in google i got literally zero results...
I have an opposite experience. I use predominantly DDG (mainly for UI reasons), but often the search results are much less relevant than from Google, or i got exact zero results, where Google finds plenty of instances of searched phrase.
I find Google is still really good at finding things for maps/navigation (and I contribute greatly to maps with pictures/reviews), but even that has become a problem with results of places that do not exist (and reviews from owners that say a place never existed where maps is saying)
depends on what you are searching for, but the constant attempts to trick me into useless garbage ads has destroyed reliability/my trust in their general search
