Agreed. Additionally, DDG is useless when searching for current news events. Google is great at flowing in headlines for recent events with searches, which often leads me to include the "!g" bang if searching for a recent issue/store.

I don't disagree, but it did trump the point of the comment it replied to.

DDG will get the job done.

And DDG makes it super easy to search google with a bang:

"!g hacker news"

Yup. The bang feature makes DDG amazing. I use it as my default because it's a great way to quickly do tailored searches. It's very easy to say, search Hacker News (!hn), python documentation (!py3), R sites (!rseek) or just pull up a wikipedia page (!w).

You can use Disconnect Search that make your google searches anonymous: https://search.disconnect.me/

I wish that were true. I tried to switch to them after they did their 'next' a few months back but the results were most of the time not nearly as good as Google's for my queries and I had to switch back.

Part of the reason google is so good is that they track you.. if you disable traffic, they aren't quite as good.