DDG is good for general queries. One thing I often do is to see what TLD a site is using before blindly typing it into my address bar. "Is it slashdot.org or slashdot.com?". For more complicated and long-tail queries, Google is your man, and DDG redirects those searches with a simple `!g` bang query.
Brave Search is better. You can enable google fallback mixing so that if it can't find good answers it will just show you google answers anonymously. Also, they have their own indexing if you don't want to use bing's like ddg does.
although with this !g ddg command that’s new to me, maybe ddg with !g is the answer. that being said, if anyone actually used that, i can see google shutting that right down.
I use that a lot. Google can't really stop it since its just inserting url parameters.
Maybe that is true for developers. I am a non-developer and I search a lot.
Ecosia and Startpage works for me.
startpage gives me a captcha on every search. maybe its because i’m on a vpn. that is a very good solution though, and one of the things that started me thinking in this direction