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Why would DDG include a button to a competing search engine, considering they already have !g? It’s implicitly saying that, “our search results aren’t that great, here’s a direct button to search Google for the same thing.”

I think you misunderstand. What DDG would be saying is: "Here are our results; in case you didn't find what you were looking for, here's a button that will give you Google's results".

Having this button will make me use DDG more, not less.

> Honestly, without this button, I doubt if I will ever start using DDG much.

"!g" is a fallback, not a default action. Seems to me pretty reasonable. Using it you're actually skipping ddg, not using it.

That's why the "!g" button should be below the search results.

Focus, long press "n", "g", enter.