On: PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo ...

[tracker1]

For programming questions, I almost always append site:stackoverflow.com to my search term... generally the anser is on SO, but I prefer the search engine's results over SO's search... on DDG and Google.

[pessimizer → tracker1]

if you're using DDG just prepend your query with !so. Using bang notation is like having every search engine in your search bar at once.

...and of course, I had no idea if !so would work before I tried it. The obvious one always seems to work:)

[Zarel → pessimizer]

He said "I prefer the search engine's results over SO's search..."

DDG's bang notation uses SO's search rather than the search engine's results.

Note that DDG's bang notation is also redundant with Chrome and most other browsers that let you set your own search engine keywords. Chrome's is especially nice, just type the first few letters of the site's URL and hit Tab and you're in a site specific search. It works automatically for any site implementing OpenSearch (or you can add it yourself by right-clicking the search box), and you don't have to memorize any keywords, so that's two advantages over DDG right there.