Developer notices Codex seems to default to DuckDuckGo for web search, verifies with script
thomasahle · x · 2026-10-19
Developer thomasahle observed that Codex appears to default to DuckDuckGo — not Google — when performing web searches, and verified that the DuckDuckGo HTML endpoint responds normally (HTTP 202) with a quick Python script. The observation sparks discussion about which search sources AI coding agents pick by default, and how that choice shapes the results they can access.
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