Nope, when I just paste that string in the URL line or put it in a Search config, it just gives me an empty page on DDG with the search term. No results.
Unfortunately, that's not working any better for me then my previous attempts...
When I set up & tried the URL bar search entry with your string, I end up with a nearly empty page with just a string field and my query in it, like this:
Try it the simple way: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amigaos ?q is for query, all the other stuff that comes after that is some sort of formatting the "found links" page.
If that simple thing doesn't work for you, try the https://duckduckgo.com page all by itself. Search something, click on any item and then retrace to the search page.
But if it doesn't show anything you are probably out of luck with IB.
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Yeah, I think I tried all those variants before...
As a simple example, if you paste any of those in the URL gadget of IB and hit return, you get the incomplete and empty DDG page I've been getting.
I'm guessing that DDG must be doing some javascript on the search URL string that isn't happy with IB while if you just enter the a search string in their webpage it works.
Thanks! Yes, turning off JS did wonders. I created a new URL prefs entry, turning off JS on DDG and new the URL bar search entry is working great with this string: