diff --git a/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py b/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
index 8f81d2c8..b66d6c0f 100644
--- a/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
+++ b/searx/engines/duckduckgo_definitions.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import json
 from urllib import urlencode
 from lxml import html
+from searx.utils import html_to_text
 from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text
 
 url = 'https://api.duckduckgo.com/'\
@@ -17,11 +18,6 @@ def result_to_text(url, text, htmlResult):
         return text
 
 
-def html_to_text(htmlFragment):
-    dom = html.fromstring(htmlFragment)
-    return extract_text(dom)
-
-
 def request(query, params):
     # TODO add kl={locale}
     params['url'] = url.format(query=urlencode({'q': query}))