Is this actually true or just an anecdote? Last time I checked the market share for core Google products was growing everywhere except in China, especially in Europe where EU has been killing off the remaining competition through GDPR et al.
I'm all for seeing newcomers take on the incumbent behemoths, but I also like true information.
I'm one of them. While I'm not completely de-Google-ing my life, I did set up Firefox at work and use DuckDuckGo for my searches there now.
I do not like DDG. Google almost always gave me what I wanted, whereas DDG is about 80% of the time. I often end up wishing I'd just used Google the first time instead. 80% sounds like a good number, but it means that I'm often frustrated with it when I wouldn't have been with Google.
Again, it's my view around me. I didn't have my business yet so it could be that my eyes are more open to privacy first products.
So it's anecdata..
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267161/market-share-of-s...