@alexs77 As said, only the pre-defined search engines can be set as the default one.

@sandyb change default search engine via below steps

1- open settings => Search => now click default search engine and then select “duckduckgo”

This Is What It Shows For Me Tho...

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@SimplyTheCat The search engine in start page can't be changed. See the FAQ

no msn is not one of the pre-configured choices. Maybe opera will change that in the future. I used to be able to choose it

Thank you for replying. The next morning when I started up Opera again, Duck Duck Go was the default search engine. Not sure what happened, as I had tried many things -- relaunching in safe mode, switching to Google (Opera's default) and then back to Duck Duck Go, closing Opera and re-opening, etc.... but it's all working fine now.

Sorry, but how do you actually turn this on?
I installed Tampermonkey and copied the script in and the dashboard says it's enabled, but Tampermonkey says no scripts are running and a search on DuckDuckGo just searches on DuckDuckGo.

@bremusa4u If You are talking about the start page search, it really can't be changed. But the search used in address bar can

Only the pre-defined search engines that come with Opera can be set as the default one.

@leocg Evidently I broke a rule - sorry about that. I will read the instructions and repost appropriately. Thank you for your patience.

Google doesn't separate search results that much anymore - like they used to do for different language areas. Sure China still get's the treatment. If Opera continues to be the only browser with forced default engine ~ step 1 would add option to choose a country code (ccTLD) from a short list including .com!

@m-n-g I think it is only work in address bar not in Speed Dial bar. So, type in address bar

Edit :
Sorry, I didn't read this forum is for Linux.
I use Windows 10 v.1709 (RS3)

@silas229 Except, maybe, for Edge/IE and Chrome, almost all browsers get their revenues from searches and from pre-added bookmarks/speed dials.