I've been using DDG as my primary search from desktop for several years now, and I find its results to be equivalent to or better than Google's most of the time.
When I can't find something, I'll try a !g, but only rarely does that help any more.
When I can't find something, I'll try a !g, but only rarely does that help any more.
For more technical searches, Google has become next to useless for me. "lupdate.exe not working Qt" transforms to "did you mean 'Update not working'?" (lupdate.exe is part of the Qt translation toolchain and Windows forces it to run as admin only because there is "update" in its file name. The Google 'correction' of that is perfectly useless).
For more technical searches, Google has become next to useless for me.
Just this morning I tried searching for this:
µC/gui button detach
Which is odd, because googling this:
button detach
These days I rarely use !g - the results have improved considerably and the bang searches are a very clever way of not requiring me to change search engine to search another site specifically.