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So, I've been messing around with this for about 30 minutes now. I don't like giving bad advice!

Set safari as your default, set the search engine you want in the safari preferences, change your browser back to what you prefer.

Props for the follow up!

Same for me. Changing safari search engines unfortunately doesn't help. Still a very cool shortcut.

Try changing the default in Safari, on the theory that it might use that as some sort of “system search engine”? Failing that, it’s probably just hardcoded.

Changed and it's still Google. Yeah the search string is probably hardcoded :(

Definitely uses Safari + Duck Duck Go for me. It appears that it just "types" the string into Safari's search bar, so whatever that does is what it does.

Try Alfred. It’s even easier. I have a global shortcut that opens a search engine prompt. Press enter to begin the search.