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I'd say the same. Google dorks work much better than DDG's filters for site-specific stuff, and generally for things like
"search term"
but for general searches DDG seems pretty similar.The only things I've also had worse performance from DDG on compared to Google (in very minimal ways) has been:
And of course, there's always the
!s
bang to run a search through Startpage (which uses Google) if I'm not getting enough detail.