I use it as daily driver and I wouldn't say DDG is great, but it's good enough definitely. I rarely use !g, like <5% of the time I search for stuff.

And I use it in two languages. Not bad.

For other results I find myself reaching to a bookmarked searx instance. I thought it just agreggates results but somehow it gives me different stuff.

And you also get magnet links :)

> Glad to disagree, DuckDuckGo is good enough if not great.

For anything that isn’t the least bit obscure or technical. (Same with just about every search engine)

IIRC, someone on hn said that search engines are only good for things you already know are there, not for finding new information or different perspectives.

Almost. Annoying are things like geographic context in results that are terrible (for me) but it's more adapting queries.

It's sad what today's web has become. Each year you see it degrade and there's no real fix I'm afraid.