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DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

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Re: DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

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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…

Good stuff! Just out of curiosity, what vector database are you using.

Re: DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

#12
post #3

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…

WebChatGPT does almost what you suggest. However, it does not actually scrape the result pages but instead uses the snippets on the DDG result page as the context to ChatGPT. https://github.com/qunash/chatgpt-advanced

Re: DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

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post #11
post #3

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…

Good stuff! Just out of curiosity, what vector database are you using.

PineCone is the database that Buff uses under the hood.

Re: DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

#14
post #5

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.

Promises should be questioned: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-clips/recode-decode-srid... "we drop the last octet"

Re: DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

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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.

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