I know I wasn't. Every time I try DDG, I immediately switch back to Google. DDG returns utter garbage when I try to do searches whose terms mix two or more languages; considering I study literary translation and am learning a few languages at the same time, this is fairly common.

I've a feeling that a lot of DDG users must be changing their search habits to suit DDG's engine, but I and plenty of others just can't.

Qwant did better, but still not close enough.

They are as good as Google for me, sometime slightly worse, sometime slightly better, and I didn't even change my searching habits when I switched. Also you can turn on or off localized results easily if you need to, which is hard with Google. The only thing I'm really missing is the good completion while typing.

I really don't think that the results on DDG are inferior, but I'm comfortable with the results. If I want something more personalize or near for my location(Venezuela is not available on DDG) I just go to Google directly or with !g

I'm more than happy with a slightly worse search in order to avoid being pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered.

While I can see some difference, in practice it's not significant enough to make me switch back to Google.

I actually think that breaks it, I like it better when everybody gets the same results for the same queries. People (via algorithms or directly) shaping what others get to see, rather than configuration and user empowerment, is something I reject.

I used to think that but now I see very little value in it to the current searcher. Why would you ever care what other people get?

To have that be part of the common world. Just like I wouldn't want Wikipedia to show a different version of the world to every visitor.

The times DDG does not find what you want, add a !g to the query.

I consider results that are not ordered by who gave the search engine the most money to be superior.

They're not, and frequently exceed Google search quality.

Specific instances vary.