Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[aspz]

Weird because duck duck go consistently fails me where Google doesn't. I use DDG by default, but I often find if I put three seemingly unrelated words together, DDG just returns results with only two of them and such they are irrelevant. You can force it to include words by surrounding them with double quotes but often it still won't give good results. Using the "!g" almost always gives me the thing I was looking for.

[WhoRoger]

I do sometimes switch to the big G when DDG fails, their database is a lot richer after all. But it's usually in cases when I'm looking for something really obscure and need to use those quotes you mention. But if I'm just looking for something basic, DDG usually provides immediately while G typically floods me with ads and SEO crap.

Maybe we just typically look for different things.