Seriously what the fuck is this? Googling this specifically because someone in my fam shared a boycott list including Shein and Temu and I thought hang on, what are they doing to fund the genocide in Israel, and saw that it was a boycott for the very real Uyghur genocide
A big thing for me is the UI. Google is cluttered, with the "Other people have searched" and "See results about" and "Related searches" and the suggest words under the toolbar. All that stuff is present, and it's not used all that much. The clutter in ddg is a lot less.
I also find ddg's "Instant Answers" much more useful than the google equivalent. Try searching "calendar 4th of march 2021" in ddg and in google, with ddg you get a little calendar and with Google you just get links to mediocre websites (before eventually getting wikipedia, which isn't as terrible).