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Re:I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo by jay_kyburz on Monday December 02, 2019 @06:51PM (#21688418)
I switched to DDG a few years ago. I think what I found was that I started being more specific in my search terms. I think its because Google has a profile about me that it applies to my searches but DDG doesn't know as much about me.

So for example, I might search for a class name and Googole will know what language / environment I'm working it, but I'll need to tell that to DDG when searching.

Re:I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo by on_and_off on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:24AM (#21700520)
True !

Recently this has become pretty annoying in some cases : if I search the name of a sports team even though I mean something totally different, Google will start sending me notifications about that team. To make it worse, how to remove that team from your 'interests' is a bit convoluted.

I also have to go out of my way to make google understand that I am sometimes looking for a result in my native language (I live abroad).

Most of the time it is on point though. It does indeed seem that it taylors dev questions to the languages I use or more generally my interests.

If this kind of logic could be somehow stored on device instead of being something that Google (or Apple or whatever other company I don't have infinite trust in) owns, that would be a killer search product.