feat(duckduckgo): detect anti-bot challenge and surface ErrBlocked
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DuckDuckGo intermittently serves a CAPTCHA modal ("Unfortunately, bots
use DuckDuckGo too...") instead of search results. The result selector
matches zero elements on that page, so callers used to get
([]Result{}, nil) — silent empty results that look like "no matches."

Detect the challenge via the BEM class .anomaly-modal__title and return
a typed ErrBlocked so callers can distinguish blocked from no-results
and react (retry, fallback to another engine, surface to user).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package duckduckgo
import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
"net/url"
@@ -9,6 +10,10 @@ import (
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/go-extractor"
)
// ErrBlocked is returned when DuckDuckGo serves an anti-bot challenge
// page instead of search results.
var ErrBlocked = errors.New("duckduckgo: blocked by anti-bot challenge")
type SafeSearch int
const (