Bing and Yandex are worth trying too. I just had a total failure from a Google search yesterday, where the official site for a piece of software wasn’t on the first 3 pages. I went over to bing and it was #1. I’m getting to the point where I predict a search will fail on google and I go to another engine. This never happened before, even in the Demand Media content farm debacle where horse shit ehow ranking for millions of major keywords.

I’ve been using the web since the best option was Yahoo’s hand curated directories. Google is in really serious trouble. These search engine switches happen very quickly, as soon as one of them is showing better results, the switch happens abruptly and it’s one way.

Isn't ddg Bing results?

Quite sure Qwant does, but DDG does appear to have their own unique results.

For your convenience:

https://www.google.com/search?q=keris

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keris

https://www.bing.com/search?q=keris

https://www.qwant.com/?q=keris

https://yandex.com/search/?text=keris

Try "what is my ip" and you will see that DDG displays 207.46.13.131 in the cached snippets, which is Microsoft Bingbot and also the same IP that Bing shows in their cached snippets.

DDG has their own crawler, but they augment results using Yandex and perhaps Bing too.

I remember reading that it uses only Bing for web results and their crawler for Wikipedia only.

I know they (at least used to) use some results from Yandex

I think this is a great mentality to have. If I look back to the "Before Google Days", I was using Yahoo Search, AOL Search, whatever other search engines that existed. And not to sound like a cranky old man not hip with the kids these days, but having to shop around for what you're looking for doesn't seem like a bad thing to train the kids these days to do... now get off my lawn.