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I don't know what search engine to use. I tried DDG not too long ago but it wasn't giving good results.
If you need something related to daily life/hobby then use "site:reddit.com [search here]" honestly reddit still contains decent results about niche topics.
If you are searching for news items you almost need to use "before:[date]" for better context otherwise its impossible to find useful information, every news article is filled with SEO mumbo jambo and makes every news about a topic today the same as it was years ago and that is not what you want.
Otherwise unless you end up searching for something with a reasonable wikipedia page that is your destination most of the time because every other alternative is as bad or worse.
This is the entire fix to Google. Nearly every complex question is better with site:reddit.com
If you think Reddit is bad, you haven't seen dozens of regurgitated blog articles stretched out by banner ads
"Good results" meaning relevant results? DDG has tools that help fine-tune your search, and if you use them, you'll probably have a better time. I'd suggest giving it another chance.
When it comes to location based services, certain integrations, and review systems, though, unfortunately I'd say Google is still the default, so there's no shame in using it for that sort of thing—just choose your engine based on what you're looking for. Firefox makes it easy.
The ddg exclamation point short cuts are great, you can search google with !g and Reddit with !r
Depends what you're after, there's also 4get.ca, yandex.ru, baidu.com (can get a browser addon to translate), mojeek.com, bing, wolfram alpha, qwant, and dogpile.com. Nerds on racist tech sites with money to burn swear by kagi but I couldn't say since aside from vpn I don't pay for online services. I'll probably think of more search engines in a moment.
As someone that does this as one of my jobs (pays way more than my main gig), somewhat concerning.
Thanks for mentioning us, here's a good quantity with information on sources: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ if it is of use