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Mostly because it's better than other options though. For instance, when I use DDG, lots of boolean handles just don't work. If I look for "cat sweater -dog", I'm going to get nothing but dog sweaters. I find fewer useful, productive results on DDG than I do on Google. Other search engines are often even worse.
I tested this out, and I consistently got cat sweaters:
so odds are that the boolean handles issue is either messier (triggered under more specific conditions than in your example) or already fixed.
That said, I do agree with you that quality is one of the factors here; since Google search is considerably better than the alternatives, it feels no pressure to improve. But the problem is still there, we've been relying on a single search engine to find stuff for us, you get users learning how to work around those issues of that single search engine, and they won't be solved.
[Completely off-topic]I can't picture my cats using a sweater like this for more than five seconds. One would go full "cat.exe stopped working" and the other would shred it into pieces.