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DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

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Re: DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

#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 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/

Re: DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results

#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.

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