> when I use other search engines I have the nagging feeling I’m missing better information on Google.

Are you though?

I've been using DDG for years now as my primary search engine.

When I started, I used !g quite often precisely because of that feeling. These days I have a hard time even remembering to try it when a search is unfruitful.

The reason being that it became less and less useful, and these days even when I do remember trying it, it generally doesn't add anything useful to my results.

DDG has been a non-start for image searches. But for limited scope things like looking up software libraries (basically: I already know what I want) I’ve found it to be fine.

It is better on mobile, but on desktop google.com gives almost a full page of ads before the first result.

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