diff --git a/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py b/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
index 50c93a243..de694e02a 100644
--- a/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
+++ b/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
@@ -17,16 +17,3 @@ def response(resp):
         results.append(base_result_template.format(**res))
 
     return results
-
-#from lxml import html
-#def request(query, params):
-#    params['method']    = 'POST'
-#    params['url']       = 'https://duckduckgo.com/html'
-#    params['data']['q'] = query
-#    return params
-#
-#
-#def response(resp):
-#    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
-#    results = dom.xpath('//div[@class="results_links results_links_deep web-result"]')
-#    return [html.tostring(x) for x in results]