Still looks 2nd rate. I replicated one of my last searches (learning rails): rails find if element is in array
First hit on google is the stackexchange answer with .include? (which I was spacing-out on)
DDG yields the Array docs, which is correct but is a helluva lot of info when I'm looking for a concise answer.
In this case you and I think that our respective search engines are providing the better result.
If you ever find yourself wanting to fall back on Google's results, just throw !sp at the front of a DDG search for StartPage's proxied Google service (or !g if you absolutely must go to Google). DDG has many, many shortcuts for directly searching StackOverflow, GitHub, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc.
On the other hand, did DDG just use Bing API, and only Blekko crawls the web? Or do I get my search engines mixed up?
Every web search engine depends on one of these indexes: google, bing, blekko, yandex, baidu.
...and of course, I had no idea if !so would work before I tried it. The obvious one always seems to work:)
DDG's bang notation uses SO's search rather than the search engine's results.
Note that DDG's bang notation is also redundant with Chrome and most other browsers that let you set your own search engine keywords. Chrome's is especially nice, just type the first few letters of the site's URL and hit Tab and you're in a site specific search. It works automatically for any site implementing OpenSearch (or you can add it yourself by right-clicking the search box), and you don't have to memorize any keywords, so that's two advantages over DDG right there.
Now you could argue that I should have omitted "find", and there was a time where that was how search engines were used, but the fact that google got the semantics right is why it is first rate.