There are things out there, great things, just struggling to be the next whatever. There should be a way to look past the eclipse of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.
I'm pretty sure Snapchat already was the next whatever
And there will be something else after it. Which probably already exists, and is just unknown.
Is it still?
No, it's the previous next whatever now.
I have to say that Duck Duck Go feels a lot more like early Google than Google does now(it feels more like querying a database than asking a machine a question). I could see them taking lots of the 'pro' search traffic, especially with their bangs and the way they still just use Stack Overflow answers/Wikipedia articles for their preferred results instead of attempting to remix them.
DDG is my default because the majority of my searches are specifically coding-related (as in, type the name of api and class and function or some such) and fact-based stuff (wiki, scientific articles whatever). But more often than not, for the more fuzzier queries I get the most useless results and have to manually go over to Google
Add !g before the search and it redirects you. You can also use !bangs to find more.
Just append !sp to your search query within DDG and you'll get Googly results without having to send data to Google when the latter happens.
Nice, better than whipping up a Private Browsing Incognito tab just to spite Alphabet Inc =)
Based on this comment and others, I have made my default search engine DDG. Will try it out for a while.