DDGS: Search & Fetch Web Data

Welcome to DDGS, a privacy-first mobile metasearch engine that puts the power of 14 global search providers directly in your hands. Built for researchers, power users, and privacy-conscious browses, DDGS aggregates multiple media indexes alongside powerful webpage extraction capabilities into a single, cohesive, modern application.

By eliminating tracking servers, DDGS routes all queries locally from your own device IP address. No accounts, no data logging, and no middleman tracking—just pure global searching.

CORE CAPABILITIES

- 14 Global Search Engines: Simultaneously aggregate results from top public search engines, including Brave, DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Startpage, Mojeek, Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and more.
- Multi-Format Searching: Seamlessly browse and toggle between the standard web, image grids, streaming video indexes, live news aggregators, and book catalogs without ever leaving the app.
- Advanced Webpage Extraction: Pull live data from any web URL and instant-convert the content into Markdown, rich text, plain text, raw HTML, or binary bytes for reading or saving locally.
- Precise Search Filters: Customize your result layouts instantly. Take advantage of full regional preferences, strict time limit adjustments (day, week, month, or year), and maximum result threshold limits.
- Granular Network Controls: Optimize your network footprint. DDGS features complete custom proxy integration, thread count performance tuning, and SSL verification toggles built directly into the core terminal.

INTERFACE & POWER-USER FEATURES

- Native-Feel Layouts: Enjoy a polished application environment optimized for mobile devices with a clean home dashboard, clear grid displays, content dimension overlays, and video duration markers.
- Onboarding & Personalization: Launch quickly into your workflow via a guided onboarding interface with seamless support for light mode, dark mode, and slate-black system themes.
- Live Activity Diagnostics: Inspect your connections in real time. Access active logging views, track request execution metrics, and monitor background error handling from a local diagnostics terminal.
- Fast Re-Run History: Browse a complete chronological log of past queries and previous content extraction tasks. Re-run or copy search parameters instantly with quick-action short cuts.

PRIVACY & ARCHITECTURE

DDGS is constructed on top of a privacy-focused technical foundation:
- Local IP Connections: All requests travel straight from your native network profile to the search provider endpoint.
- Zero Remote Data Tracking: Device preferences, settings states, and search keywords are handled locally via platform-safe key-value data models.
- Integrated Ad Layouts: DDGS displays lightweight banner and interstitial ads tailored cleanly into search screens to support free ongoing tool maintenance.

IMPORTANT POLICY NOTICE
In compliance with all Google Play Developer Distribution Agreements and platform regulations, DDGS handles third-party video downloading dynamically. Downloading from YouTube is restricted due to app store guidelines. When a YouTube video is selected, DDGS safely presents a dedicated redirection button to open or stream the video content in your external browser app. Media downloading, progress dialogs, and local file saving operate completely normally across all other supported video platforms, direct HTML5 web URLs, and image sources.