Actually I often prefer DDG-results over google-results. Google tends to leave keywords out of the search seemingly at random when it can't find "enough" results on all keywords.

Either way, DDG has a killer-feature: bang-notations. Put !g in your query, and your search is redirected to google. Put !w in there, and you'll find yourself on the wikipedia page. If you are wary of google, like me, use !sp and you get startpage using google as engine. There are many more.

It's a pity that it takes something like this to show people that all that convenience has a severe downside, and it's troublesome that people give up their privacy and identity so easily to an advertising company like the goog. (and facebook and twitter and ...)