I honestly think there's something wrong with Google's individual customization. They're leaning in a little too hard on things you're likely to be searching for rather than what you're actually searching for.

DDG gives me better results for random searches on things I'm not usually looking for. When I was looking for Godot exercises yesterday every hit on DuckDuckGo for ages was just exactly what I wanted. When I went over to search Google there was a lot of more varied topics. Now, hands down if I need what time a certain store closes at a certain location Google will give me exactly what I'm looking for. Likewise if I need to know what's near something else Google is absolutely superior to DDG. Google's image search is also far more accurate and useful.

But then I come back and look for a medical condition for my cat that I've never heard of before, You passed by the sponsors and they've got a couple of random pages about it maybe a Reddit article or two that's now blocked, but it quickly devolves to adjacent searches.

But if I go and search for any of my usual suspects, The rankings come back pretty decent.