I agree that google today isn't as good as it was a year ago, and that their search results are not *quite* as good as they were a year ago, but the search results are still better than DDG's. "Better" means that I get results that I deem to be more relevant to my queries. The words "I" and "my" are important there.

My real beef with google these days is their hijacking of the cursor keys so that they don't scroll the page any more, instead they select the next link on the page.