I switched to DuckDuckGo not for privacy, though that is nice, but to get away from a horrid misfeature Google introduced a year or so ago that moves links out from under my cursor right as I try to click on them. Specifically, it's Google's "People also search for" links.
Those links used to appear as just another box in the search results. But then Google made them appear when you click a search result and then navigate Back to the search results page. When I go back, usually I am planning to click on the search result below the one I had just clicked on. But right as I move my mouse to where the next search result was and click, a box expands under the link I had just visited with suggested searches. Whenever that box appears, I always end up clicking one of the suggested search links instead of the search result I was aiming for.
Google's testers probably don't notice the problem because they are slow to acquire targets with the mouse. They probably click on the Back button with their mouse instead of using a keyboard shortcut like I do. But I'm sticking with DuckDuckGo, because it doesn't ever shift the search results around on the page while I'm looking at it.
Those links used to appear as just another box in the search results. But then Google made them appear when you click a search result and then navigate Back to the search results page. When I go back, usually I am planning to click on the search result below the one I had just clicked on. But right as I move my mouse to where the next search result was and click, a box expands under the link I had just visited with suggested searches. Whenever that box appears, I always end up clicking one of the suggested search links instead of the search result I was aiming for.
Google's testers probably don't notice the problem because they are slow to acquire targets with the mouse. They probably click on the Back button with their mouse instead of using a keyboard shortcut like I do. But I'm sticking with DuckDuckGo, because it doesn't ever shift the search results around on the page while I'm looking at it.