Why do people still use Google?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=basecamp
If the first page of DDG doesn't yield results it's about a second's work to do the same search, but with !g appended anywhere in the query.
If you scroll with your keyboard, how do you get back to the search field more quickly than with the mouse?
If you scroll with the mouse, how is a one-click solution with the device you already have in your hand not more efficient?
BL: DDG makes bang switches unwieldy. They should fix that.
EDIT: The / key is DDG's shortcut for going back to the search box. That helps a little. Doesn't mean that a clickable button wouldn't help usability a ton. Additionally, since editing a search is probably the most common use case (rather than replacing the search terms entirely), going to the search box should start with the cursor at the beginning or end of the box, rather than with the whole field highlighted.
In any case, certainly you can recognize that a huge proportion of people scroll with a mouse, n'est-ce pas?
Look at Mac sales after Intel/BootCamp/Parallels. VirtualPC existed before but it wasn't easy or fast. When it became almost seamless to fall back to Windows when necessary, more people were willing to take the leap.
You probably still are if you use chrome. By default DDG searches keep the query in the URL which means your chrome history contains history of all your searches.
You can also turn it off to save this data on you.
But yes, you can turn that off in your Google preferences as well.
Yes, I could cmd-click on the title instead but people (me) are lazy. Bigger targets make for a better/quicker experience.
They have a few other javascript enhancements like this that seem to break simple HTML functionality. Enough of them that I go back to using Google any time I venture into the DDG world.
In short, no, DDG is definitely not inferior in my experience, it's all just a matter of getting used to it.