Getting unhappy about DuckDuckGo - Lemmy.ca

For several years I’ve been using DuckDuckGo instead of Google Search, and I’ve been overall quite happy with the results. Only rarely had I to resort to Google search (!g). Of late, however, I find myself using the !g switch and Google search more than half of the time. DuckDuckGo shows no or few results where Google shows more (and useful) ones. Still I don’t want to give in. So: - Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo? - Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?