[humanpuff69]

When it comes to search engines Google was and still is (with some bias) the best, and I'm really not a Google apologist, quite the opposite most of the time.

But one should be aware that Google has INTERESTS (many interests); some are trivially mundane (like business-related stuff) where it algorithmically priorities certain URLs over others, others are ideologically motivated (like censoring certain Urls while promoting others) and others are (ahum..) US national security related (and we don't wanna go there :-) ).....

You see it's not all black and white and the 'smartness' of Google searches will depend on what you're searching for and where Google's own interest lays... In this sense, the Web has really changed from the times of the 'Don't be Evil' slogan thing.

With all the above in mind, I'll still go for Google Search doing my daily queries.. It's like as they say, better the devil you know...

In contrast, I was aware of the DuckDuckGo since it's beginnings back in 2008/9 (and I'm aware of its advocacy for privacy), but I've never really seen it as a real alternative to Google search.

one of the reason that duckduckgo isnt poipular because the search result sometime just isnt as good as google but . duckduckgo result isnt filtered like google and doesnt piroritize google servie and kill it . google is smart on finding page and that is why google is preferred by other people and preferred than yahoo , bing and their competitor that lack the 'smart' that google has

so yes google is smarter but their filter make it dumber