[zeech]

If you don't like all the fluff on the results page, DDG provides two alternative interfaces [0] [1] with much simpler layouts.

[0] https://html.duckduckgo.com/html

[1] https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

[Imustaskforhelp]

This is my first seeing https://html.duckduckgo.com/html and surprisingly I am enjoying it

I would prefer if there was a way to have dark mode or similar things in it tho. It was really really fast.

[verdverm]

cool, but they block curl requests with an iframe and such

I would pay DDG if they gave me an API for search, ideally pay-per-request. I'm not paying them for Ai, I can get that much better elsewhere

[zeech]

IIRC the reason they don't (can't?) provide a search API directly is because they're pulling from other search sources, e.g. Bing, and can't provide an API without licence violations.

Agreed that a DDG API would be pretty great, though.