'Jake Voytko, who previously worked at Google, writing in a blog post:

[...] Let's move away from Google's competitive advantages. How does
DuckDuckGo perform for most of my search traffic? DuckDuckGo does a
good job. I haven't found a reason to switch back to Google. I combed
through my browser's history of DuckDuckGo searches. I compared it to
my Google search history. When I fell back to Google, I often didn't
find what I wanted on Google either. Most of my searches relate to my
job, which means that most of my searches are technical queries.
DuckDuckGo serves good results for my searches. I'll admit that I'm a
paranoid searcher: I reformat error strings, remove identifiers that
are unique to my code, and remove quotes before searching. I'm not
sure how well DuckDuckGo would handle copy/pasted error strings with
lots of quotes and unique identifiers. This means that I don't know if
DuckDuckGo handles all technical searches well. But it does a good job
for me.

There are many domains where Google outperforms DuckDuckGo. Product
search and local search are some examples. I recently made a window
plug. It was much easier to find which big-box hardware stores had the
materials I need with Google. I also recently bought a pair of ANC
headphones. I got much better comparison information starting at
Google. Google also shines with sparse results like rare programming
error messages. If you're a programmer, you know what I'm talking
about: imagine a Google search page with three results. One is a page
in Chinese that has the English error string, one is a forum post that
gives you the first hint that you need to solve the problem, and one
is the error string in the original source code in Github. DuckDuckGo
often returns nothing for these kinds of searches. Even though Google
is better for some specific domains, I am confident that DuckDuckGo
can find what I need. When it doesn't, Google often doesn't help
either.'

-- source: https://search.slashdot.org/story/20/03/09/1554252

I've been using DuckDuckGo for a number of years exclusively now and I
agree with the author that when I can't find it with DDG, I can't find
it with Google either.

Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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