When I started increasingly using DDG a while ago, it was primarily because I (1) thought it was "good enough" and (2) I wanted to preserve some diversity in the search ecosystem.

But by now, DDG is simply better. An important use case for search for me is to copy and paste URLs for discussions etc. Google will still show original URLs when I hover over their links, but when I COPY them, I don't get the URL, but some redirect link through Google.

At best, those are ugly and confusing when pasted into text. At worst, for e.g. image URLs, naïve processing may not longer recognize them as images because the suffix is buried deep in the redirect link.

DDG gives original URLs, As Sir Timothy Wanted Them.

Additionally, for image search, I get the impression that yandex gives more relevant results, although I don't have hard data to back that up.