I too feel the results have been poor of late. I think Google probably "knows" the type of questions you look for (ie. usually on stack overflow for programming

I too feel the results have been poor of late. I think Google probably "knows" the type of questions you look for (ie. usually on stack overflow for programming questions, or whatever most popular links people are clicking on around that time). If I'm looking for something very esoteric, I can tell straight away that DDG doesn't understand my query from its results and I go over to Google and find the answer on the first, second or third page.