After you search, you have to click the "Tools" button and then change the "All results" dropdown to "Verbatim".
It's bad UX, there's no indication at all for why I'd want to click on a dropdown that says "All results".
It's bad UX, there's no indication at all for why I'd want to click on a dropdown that says "All results".
Not only does appending !gvb to a DDG search perform a Google verbatim search, it also directly reveals the Google UI for searching a date range.
The combination of normal DDG plus easy access to Google verbatim and date range seaches gives a pretty nice search experience.