It did work very well for me, at least for a typical search. Ctrl+T, <type search in already focused textbox>, Enter, Down arrow a few times, Enter.

There is a lot of value to me in this, the user, but actually negative to google: you can't really justify inserting ads into keyboard navigation, can you.

and "copy link" actually works as it should on DDG - it does not become a google link.

I just discovered that ' [single quote/apostrophe] opens the selected result (from navigating up/down using j/k or arrow keys) in a new tab.

I use Vimium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...