your evaluation is different than the GP’s. your DDG results are usually “good enough” so you don’t check google until they aren’t.
since i’ve gone back to using google as primary i’ve found the results are better.
anyway you are both speaking anecdotally but arguing as if you speak for the general case. at the risk of making the same mistake, i bet that in the general case google is better.
I didn't intend to imply that I'm speaking for the general case, especially for something as inherently individual as the relevance of search results :) From my perspective, and in my experience, DDG is indeed usually good enough; it presents the information I seek, and when it doesn't, Google usually doesn't, either. That's entirely dependent on my search habits, and will likely be a very different experience for someone else with one's own very different search habits.
Either way, seems like betting on a general case is a shaky proposition given the difficulty of defining a "general" case for a search engine.
since i’ve gone back to using google as primary i’ve found the results are better.
anyway you are both speaking anecdotally but arguing as if you speak for the general case. at the risk of making the same mistake, i bet that in the general case google is better.