

There are some things it would be nice to have a brain in a jar to do for me.
I do not, however, want that jar sitting in an Amazon-owned server room somewhere, where they can modify the jar to change how the brain works.
Take back your brain-in-a-jars from big tech! /j
I’d say the same. Google dorks work much better than DDG’s filters for site-specific stuff, and generally for things like
"search term"
but for general searches DDG seems pretty similar.The only things I’ve also had worse performance from DDG on compared to Google (in very minimal ways) has been:
And of course, there’s always the
!s
bang to run a search through Startpage (which uses Google) if I’m not getting enough detail.