diff --git a/js/searchbar/bangsPlugin.js b/js/searchbar/bangsPlugin.js
index 176c3c8f5..016c11229 100644
--- a/js/searchbar/bangsPlugin.js
+++ b/js/searchbar/bangsPlugin.js
@@ -105,7 +105,18 @@ function showBangSearchResults (results, input, event, container) {
 function getBangSearchResults (text, input, event, container) {
 
   // get results from DuckDuckGo if it is a search engine, and the current tab is not a private tab
-  if (currentSearchEngine.name === 'DuckDuckGo' && !tabs.get(tabs.getSelected()).private) {
+  if (currentSearchEngine.name === 'DuckDuckGo HTML' && !tabs.get(tabs.getSelected()).private) {
+    fetch('https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?t=min&q=' + encodeURIComponent(text), {
+      cache: 'force-cache'
+    })
+      .then(function (response) {
+        return response.json()
+      })
+      .then(function (results) {
+        // show the DuckDuckGo results, combined with the custom !bangs
+        showBangSearchResults(results.concat(searchCustomBangs(text)), input, event, container)
+      })
+  } else if (currentSearchEngine.name === 'DuckDuckGo Lite' && !tabs.get(tabs.getSelected()).private) {
     fetch('https://ac.duckduckgo.com/ac/?t=min&q=' + encodeURIComponent(text), {
       cache: 'force-cache'
     })
diff --git a/js/searchbar/instantAnswerPlugin.js b/js/searchbar/instantAnswerPlugin.js
index 22ab0da84..ea385692d 100644
--- a/js/searchbar/instantAnswerPlugin.js
+++ b/js/searchbar/instantAnswerPlugin.js
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 function showSearchbarInstantAnswers (text, input, event, container) {
   // only make requests to the DDG api if DDG is set as the search engine
-  if (currentSearchEngine.name !== 'DuckDuckGo') {
+  if (currentSearchEngine.name !== 'DuckDuckGo HTML') {
+    return
+  } else if (currentSearchEngine.name !== 'DuckDuckGo Lite') {
     return
   }
 
diff --git a/js/searchbar/searchSuggestionsPlugin.js b/js/searchbar/searchSuggestionsPlugin.js
index 7c3dc5e91..fcd2d544c 100644
--- a/js/searchbar/searchSuggestionsPlugin.js
+++ b/js/searchbar/searchSuggestionsPlugin.js
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ var ddgAttribution = 'Results from DuckDuckGo'
 
 function showSearchSuggestions (text, input, event, container) {
   // TODO support search suggestions for other search engines
-  if (currentSearchEngine.name !== 'DuckDuckGo') {
+  if (currentSearchEngine.name !== 'DuckDuckGo HTML') {
+    return
+  } else if (currentSearchEngine.name !== 'DuckDuckGo Lite') {
     return
   }
 
diff --git a/js/util/searchEngine.js b/js/util/searchEngine.js
index 18ff46e20..1c41b7ec8 100644
--- a/js/util/searchEngine.js
+++ b/js/util/searchEngine.js
@@ -3,28 +3,20 @@ var currentSearchEngine = {
   searchURL: '%s'
 }
 
-var defaultSearchEngine = 'DuckDuckGo'
+var defaultSearchEngine = 'DuckDuckGoHTML'
 
 var searchEngines = {
-  DuckDuckGo: {
-    name: 'DuckDuckGo',
-    searchURL: 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=min'
+  DuckDuckGoHTML: {
+    name: 'DuckDuckGo HTML',
+    searchURL: 'https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%s&t=min'
   },
-  Google: {
-    name: 'Google',
-    searchURL: 'https://google.com/search?q=%s'
+  DuckDuckGoLite: {
+    name: 'DuckDuckGo Lite',
+    searchURL: 'https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=%s&t=min'
   },
-  Bing: {
-    name: 'Bing',
-    searchURL: 'https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s'
-  },
-  Yahoo: {
-    name: 'Yahoo',
-    searchURL: 'https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=%s'
-  },
-  Baidu: {
-    name: 'Baidu',
-    searchURL: 'https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%s'
+  searx: {
+    name: 'searx',
+    searchURL: 'https://searx.laquadrature.net/search?q=%s'
   },
   StartPage: {
     name: 'StartPage',
@@ -34,10 +26,6 @@ var searchEngines = {
     name: 'Wikipedia',
     searchURL: 'https://wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s'
   },
-  Yandex: {
-    name: 'Yandex',
-    searchURL: 'https://yandex.com/search/?text=%s'
-  },
   none: {
     name: 'none',
     searchURL: 'http://%s'