I use DDG as my main search engine for several years now. It used to be that google results were better, but for more than a year now I've found the google results to be worse. I hardly ever do !g these ays. Recently I did a comparison between google, DDG and Kagi and to my surprise for the handful of terms the results were very similar, where DDG with ads turned off usually gave the best results. That included searches for stuff like Kreditkarte which I guess is a lucrative search term. I live in Germany, that does affect things.