It’s not. Not even close. There should be some sort of “search benchmark” that could show this more objectively.
A table of searches with search queries and the correct first resukt. In maby cases it’s clear what the correct result is (Search for a major company and I want their website index page for example). In other cases the expected result is “what google does”, e.g when searching for “123 GBP in USD”.
It’s not that DDG doesn’t let me find what I want eventually, it’s that it doesn’t have the right result as #1 which is extremely frustrating when you are used to the I’m feeling lucky-click on the first result without reading.
To switch I’d want google quality results with zero added effort on my part e.g in learning better DDG-querying or accepting a slightly longer time to browse results. That’s pretty tough to pull off without the resources and data that Google has.
A table of searches with search queries and the correct first resukt. In maby cases it’s clear what the correct result is (Search for a major company and I want their website index page for example). In other cases the expected result is “what google does”, e.g when searching for “123 GBP in USD”.
It’s not that DDG doesn’t let me find what I want eventually, it’s that it doesn’t have the right result as #1 which is extremely frustrating when you are used to the I’m feeling lucky-click on the first result without reading.
To switch I’d want google quality results with zero added effort on my part e.g in learning better DDG-querying or accepting a slightly longer time to browse results. That’s pretty tough to pull off without the resources and data that Google has.