ddg is my default and this is the killer feature for me.
I type in "houston !gmaps" and right to google maps focused on Houston. I copy paste "[error] !so" and get relevant stack overflow search, "[actor] !imdb" etc.
I type in "houston !gmaps" and right to google maps focused on Houston. I copy paste "[error] !so" and get relevant stack overflow search, "[actor] !imdb" etc.
To make matters worse, if I type "dragon book" into the Amazon search bar directly, I'm getting the wrong results.
(Both searches done from a fresh incognito tab.)
On DDG, "dragon book !amazon" lands me on an Amazon search result page.
Very different. By adding one !, I saved a whole page load and render, and having to click on a result.
I guess you're arguing that Google's search is better than Amazon's. In some ways, assuming that you're looking for the compilers book, it is. I'd argue that it doesn't show cover thumbnails and stuff like that, so it's a toss up. But this is one example out of many. I think the wikipedia bang is very useful, for example.