[gaazoh]

Google has a near monopoly on web search, and they are very aggressively doing everything they can to keep it that way, both by tightly integrating it in their products (browser, browser engine, and OSs, mainly) and funding competitors (Safari and Firefox main revenue source are contracts with Google, under the condition of making Google the default search engine).

Sure, you're free to use DDG and find a workflow, but people are less likely to remember it, especially as they overwhelmingly use Google.