For me, DDG just needs to add blacklists/whitelists to search results that users can customize and I'll stay. I'm looking at switching away because SEO is so bad.
Kagi has this and it's amazing. The domain ranking is a range so you can completely blacklist something or you can make it appear higher in the results
Yes, so much autogenerated nonsense SEO sites in every search for me on DDG for about a year now, also thinking of moving back to google. Sure, !g, but if I use it every time, why not just google?
Every time I try g! to bypass SEO or “no relevant results”, the google results are just as bad as the DDG ones. I’ve found myself trying g! more often this year, but it has worked zero times for me in the last > 5 years.