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DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

by kntoukakis on 2/13/23, 10:05 PM with 16 comments

  • by freeqaz on 2/13/23, 10:30 PM

    This looks like it's just throwing your Search query directly into ChatGPT and sending you back the result. (Source code[0])

    This is less intelligent than what Bing is doing with (presumably) scraping the pages and then generating embeddings to add "context" for your query.

    There isn't a "generic" project that I've seen that's doing this yet, but I could see somebody extending this plugin to scrape the first ~5 pages and then feed that into ChatGPT as the "context" for answering the question.

    We've been doing something similar with another Open Source project called Buff[1] but it requires scraping the data yourself before you can ask it questions. (We're scraping vulnerability/CVE data and putting it into the Vector database via OpenAI's embeddings API. You can play around with it on our Discord server linked from my profile.)

    Is anybody else aware of any other projects to make search more useful?

    0: https://github.com/adamlui/userscripts/blob/master/chatgpt/d...

    1: https://github.com/getbuff/Buff/

  • by wanderingmind on 2/13/23, 10:29 PM

    For those interested, I think chatgpt4google[1] has a much cleaner implementation and works on a wide range of search engines and browsers. They also have an option to switch the searchengine from ChatGPT to OpenAI GPT3

    [1] https://chatgpt4google.com/

  • by user- on 2/13/23, 10:44 PM

    I really hope no one uses this. Kinda defeats the purpose of DuckDuckGo when all your searches are being sent to OpenAI to read and use to train AI models..

  • by beardog on 2/13/23, 10:35 PM

    OpenAI's privacy policy makes this a no go for me. DDG's privacy policy claims they do not log IP addresses, where as OpenAI collects info such as your phone number and logs your IP.

    Privacy policies are only somewhat better than pinky promises, but in this case the promise is the main reason most people use DDG. I would not search on DDG if the privacy benefit was eliminated.

  • by viraptor on 2/13/23, 10:31 PM

    It's great we still have the possibility to improve the websites without waiting for the upstream to do it.

    I hope someone will do a Kagi integration as well. (Unless Kagi will do it themselves?)

  • by fxj on 2/14/23, 11:09 AM

    https://www.perplexity.ai/ is also doing that but in a better way IMHO. you can just enter search text and it will google it for you and summarize the best hits by using GPT-3, still presenting the best hits in a list.

    I do about half of my searches now in perplexity because you get really relevant links. I use google only for trivial searches.

  • by LorenDB on 2/13/23, 10:39 PM

    I LOLed when I saw the logo, and again when I saw the sample search.

    Either this guy has an incredible sense of humor, or I haven't been sleeping enough.

  • by rpastuszak on 2/13/23, 10:46 PM

    Hehe I was joking about this literally this evening: https://mastodon.cloud/@raf/109859009469682827

  • by MopMop on 2/14/23, 2:13 PM

    Installed all the addons and the script. Dialog box appeared in DDG , kept searching for results but did not return anything. Is there something amiss?

  • by fdgsdfogijq on 2/13/23, 10:45 PM

    Bye Bye Google