I don't understand why everyone is so big on switching away from Google these days. Some of my coworkers have been doing this as well.

Instead of giving away your personal information to one place, why not give it away to 10 or 20 places?

I think it makes sense to use the best tool for the job. At least when it comes to email, maps, and search I would argue that Gmail, Google Maps, and Google are the best services by a long shot.

Not to knock Duck Duck Go, but it would drive me crazy to have to do multiple searches or go through more results just to find something I could find on Google in the first half of the first page of results.

Sure I would get used to it eventually, but it's not worth losing my own time/productivity over.