For Firefox, there's a search plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duck-duck-go-...) that adds DuckDuckGo to the list of search providers.

For Chrome, it appears to be a little more complicated. You can use DuckDuckGo for searches, but it doesn't look like you can alter the source for URL suggestions. Details on how to use DuckDuckGo as Chrome's search provider are here: http://ddgg.nfriedly.com/#oneclick.

Sure, depends on your browser: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216425-b...

Not to be too harsh here, but wouldn't you want that URL to be a little bit better optimized for search engines?

Just look at the results for "how to make duckduckgo my default search engine": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+make+duckduckgo+my+default+...

Yes, probably! This is how it is coming out of assistly, but duly noted.

Ah great - thank you! :)

Which browser? In Firefox I do this by going to about:config, and setting "keyword.URL" to:

https://duckduckgo.com/?kh=1&kg=p&k1=-1&kp=-1...

You might want to fiddle with the parameters though. For example, I'm specifying that my country is the UK in the above URL

Nice, thanks. Also UK here.