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I use DDG daily. It's fine for simple, popular, searches (e.g. finding the website of a company by name) but is completely useless for anything even remotely complicated or specialized.

DDG won't even return Stack ("Your question has been deleted as a duplicate") Overflow results for technical questions.

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We must be asking very different technical questions, since I get lots of Stack Overflow results on DDG.

I disagree. Google has one strong point, which is "context search". For example, "song with the trumpet intro 90s" or something, will yield crap on DDG and a YouTube link to the song you had in your head on Google.

For any other search term, Google generally spams me with "answer boxes" that are universally slightly besides the point, while DDG gives me a clean page of relevant links.

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