I also switched from Google to Duck Duck Go about a week ago. It's perfect for common terms, but I still switch to Google for the more obscure stuff. But it's not like Google in 1999. Search has gotten harder, and more expensive -- which is part of why Google is doing what they can to get a competitive advantage (by hoovering up more of your data) and exploiting it (by selling the data, displaying ads based on it, etc.).