Overview

General-purpose web search via DuckDuckGo. No API key required, no cookie. Serves as the always-on broad default for English and mixed-language queries where more specialized channels may not cover the topic.

When to Choose It

• First-line web discovery before specialized channels
• Queries where platform-specific coverage (github, arxiv, HN) is unlikely to help
• Mixed-domain topics that need broad source variety

How To Search (Planned)

text_search — calls the ddgs PyPI package (renamed from duckduckgo-search). Sync API wrapped in asyncio.to_thread. Returns {title, href, body} hits mapped to Evidence with 500-char snippet truncation.

Known Quirks

• DDGS occasionally returns empty results during rate limit; channel returns [] and logs warn without crashing pipeline.
• Result URLs may redirect; we keep the original href (no unwrap).

Quality Bar

• Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
• No crash on empty or malformed API response.
• Source channel field matches the channel name.