Re: Improved duckduckgo performance

[Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Vladimir. Using the 'lite' version of the search engine solved
the issue, and I don't notice any drawbacks to it.

@Katsumi-san, are you ok with a patch to file w3m-search.el line ~217 to
change the default duckduckgo setting to use the lite version, as
Vladimir does?

On 2019-04-10 20:11, Vladimir Sedach wrote:
> > My experience using the duckduckgo search engine with emacs-w3m has been
> > frustrating, possibly be due to how redirects are handled. I'm
> > considering making a pull request for the following simple solution, but
> > would first like any feedback from the list.
>
> Are you using the "lite" version of DDG? There are no redirects
> there. Here is my DDG entry for W3M-SEARCH-ENGINE-ALIST:
>
> ("duckduckogo"
>        "https://duckduckgo.com/lite"; utf-8 "q=%s")
>
> Queries are made using POST form submission.
>
> Vladimir
>

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