I'm currently hesitating between Qwant & DuckDuckGo, but feel free to advise another search engine if you like it better.
Thanks people ! :)
I've never heard about Qwant and did a little research about it by typing "!hn qwant" using DDG.
Needless to say, the criticism leveled by HN community against Qwant is what exactly makes me thank DDG [news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631473].
The functionality of DDG coupled with some add-ons like like VimFx on Firefox gave me no reason to take a look back. Previous to these, I used to have accrued guilt at my browser looking at me impatiently and now, I am the one irritated at my browser's execution. I don't blame her. Its the processor speed, after all. :)
If you want near google like results, use "!s <query>" for it to redirect to Startpage, which is another privacy aiming Search site.
Or, if you are adamant on using Qwant, you have DDG getting as meta as it can get by using "!qwt <query>" or if you want a detailed list of Qwant's functionality and its specialized searches, hit up "!bang Qwant" and read on!
Reasons on switching was the common german privacy understanding to keep my search history private.