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I've been trying to use DDG but honestly it sucks. I can't imagine Apple switching to it, it would just make things worse for users, who commonly can't figure out how to switch defaults. I think it's just a negotiating point.
What difficulties are you finding with it and are you switching from Google? The results are as custom as Google given they haven't scraped your life history so wondering if that's it? I've been using DDG without any issues. About once every 6 months I struggle to find something so try the Google bang but have never found better results. In fact, I was shocked last time how crap the Google results were, just full of AI generated crap and SEO based crap.
To be honest, DDG is also struggling with that now as it's based on Bing. I have been trying a public searxg but not found it very good so far.
Try Kagi. You may love it like I did.
Genuinely curious, what makes it so great?
For me, it finds smaller websites that usually contain the information I need, but aren't SEOd that well so they don't appear on ad-driven search engines. Also the programming lens is great
I like being able to prioritize sites I like and deprioritize/block ones I don’t.