Web search returns 'test page'

[radcliffkey]

When I want Goose to search the web for something, it says the search returned a Duckduckgo test page.

Example:

─── web_search | computercontroller ──────────────────────────
query: AI news

I've saved the search results to a JSON file. To summarize the news, I need to read the content of that file. Would you like me to do that?

( O)> yes

─── cache | computercontroller ──────────────────────────
command: view
path: ...

The search result seems to be a test page from DuckDuckGo. That's not very helpful. I'll try a different query to get actual AI news.

Query reformulation did not help.

• OS & Arch: Ubuntu 24.04 x64
• Interface: CLI
• Version: 1.0.14
• Extensions enabled: Computer Controller, Developer, JetBrains, Tutorial
• Provider & Model: Google - gemini-2.0-flash

[Jay4242]

It seems like an error with multi-word searches in that duckduckgo API. It's mentioned in this stackoverflow comment.

single query word seems to work fine, but multi-word queries returns empty results. For example, api.duckduckgo.com/?q=OpenAI&format=json works, but api.duckduckgo.com/?q=OpenAI+Company&format=json does not.

[michaelneale]

I wonder if the web_search tool in the CC MCP should be removed as I am not sure it works that well (single word search isn't really great is it?)