Interesting, I’ve never heard those points before. They’re both super fast for me, and give me really good results.

I was using DDG for many years, but the results were often super bad and I hadn’t noticed until I started using Google search again. Then I started using Ecosia and Qwant, and the results have been sometimes better and sometimes worse than Google – mainly only worse whenever I need Google Maps for its various features around businesses that OpenStreetMap is missing.

I’m preaching to the choir here, but for those who don’t know

https://www.qwant.com/ (France)

https://www.ecosia.org/ (German)

Both of the above are currently in partnership as well.