With the hundreads of millions of searches that go on everyday you would think they could pull a little bit more.
I guess it truly is hard for people to change who they search with after all is said and done.
I tried it myself based on all the glowing comments here, but I didn't find it to be particularly impressive (not bad, but not great either). I also found myself using '!g' most of the time because the default results were inferior to those returned by google; in the end I just cut out the middleman.
So I guess I just don't get all the hype about DDG on Hacker News (same goes for bitcoin and the never-ending stream of Python non-stories). Maybe there's a cult-ish aspect to it?
i guess its hard for me to switch since EVERYTHING i do is with g ( email, search, google+, etc.)
its more a convienience thing for me. but yeah i think it def is a bigger following on tech sites in relation to the average person.