Why I stopped using DuckDuckGo

One of the convenient things about DDG is that if your search results aren't to your liking, it's just a few additional keystrokes to pipe your query into another search engine via bang syntax: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

I have also found DDG to be not as good for a lot of software/library/syntax related searches, and now I usually append "!g" to those queries. But those are maybe ~20-30% of my total search volume, so it's worth it to me.

I think it is fair to say that making DDG your primary search engine _today_ involves some compromise of overall search quality, but that's the price of supporting an evolving product.

One gentle problem with DDG is that results tend to be heavily US centric. I'd like some way to filter those, even if it's not perfect.