I use DDG, but mostly with the bangs, so I search in the place I'm likely to get the answer I want. Which can be limiting, because I'm always using the same sites (e.g. imdb for media information) and won't discover new ones, and sometimes I don't know where I can find what I'm looking for.

For more general searches, depending on the topic, DDG is close to useless because link farms, AI slop, and returning results that aren't really what I'm looking for (some of the keywords weight too much). But I suspect this is a common problem in all search engines, so I'm not looking for a replacement. It is frustrating though. I can't believe the information doesn't exist, is just that it is unreachable.

I don't search using AI. Generally I'm not looking for information that can be distilled into an "answer"; and there's also that DDG is not feeding me AI answer (I think? May be I'm not paying attention).