Why use DuckDuckGo then and suffer an extra roundtrip?

Chrome supports using different search engines directly.

In my Chrome, searching youtube.com is just "you<tab>query<return>", the en.wikipedia.org is "en<tab>query<return>", Google Maps is "maps..." etc.

The nice thing is that it picks up various search engines automatically. Useful for work etc.

And if you want to use DuckDuckGo occasionally, it's just a "duck<tab>" away.

(And Google is my default search engine.)