I switched my search engine to DuckDuckGo, and it made Google better

I've been trying to disentangle my online life from Google for a while. And as someone who wrote about Android professionally for years, it hasn't been easy. I've ditched Chrome, but I still use a Samsung Galaxy phone and Google Pixel Watch, for example. But when I finally got off the big daddy, Google Search, and switched to DuckDuckGo, it had a surprising effect: Google got better. That's a broad statement, so let me be more particular right away.