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Looks amazing, but does any search > 3 characters fail for anyone else?

From what I could garner it uses the public DuckDuckGo Instant Answers API[0], which only returns results for specific queries (try "Microsoft", then try something obscure). This is most likely causing your issue.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/api

Sounds more like they're using mysql default settings, search is 3 characters minimum, below that it fails.

Oh, I should've noticed based on how specific the results were. Thanks!

yeah, it's broken for every search I tried

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28938998 :)

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