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I've switched to DDG almost a year ago, and I never had issues with my search results. Quite the contrary, every time I tried using !g because I simply wasn't finding an answer, the Google was ad-ridden bullshit full of promoted pages without relevance to what I was looking for.
I guess I'm just used to DDG quality of results, but I never felt like it's as bad as you say.
That depends very heavily on what your searching for.
If you're a programmer or similar, like the poster you're replying to appears to be, then you absolutely will find DDG crap compared to Google.
I use DDG as my primary search engine, but if I have a tech question, I usually skip it and go straight to Google.