Mastodawn

Ramin Honary Sep 12, 2025

the DuckDuckGo search engine has a “lite” version.

https://start.duckduckgo.com/lite

It’s even better than the original early 2000s-era Google front page, they don’t even have the “I’m feeling lucky” feature. It is precisely three elements: company name, query input field, search button.

#tech #Internet #WebApps #smolweb #IndieWeb #DuckDuckGo #SearchEngine #Search #OnlineSearch

Here, let me copy-paste the HTML source of this page here:

<body>
<a name="top"></a>
<center id="lite_wrapper">
  <br>
  <span class="header">DuckDuckGo</span>
  <br><br>
  <form action="/lite/" method="post">
    <input class="query" type="text" size="40" name="q" autocomplete="off" value="" autofocus="">
    <input class="submit" type="submit" value="Search">
  </form>
  <br>
  <p class="html-only">
<!-- This is the Lite version.
     Get the full-JS version <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/">here</a>.
     //-->
  </p>
</center>
</body>