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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions docs/configuration.md
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Expand Up @@ -180,8 +180,9 @@ excerpt (or Reddit's public JSON for a Reddit post), and attributes the excerpt
to that result. This is source text, not an AI-generated synthesis; if the page
cannot be safely or quickly fetched, its DuckDuckGo snippet is used instead.
If DuckDuckGo's rendered page is unavailable or presents an anti-automation
challenge, a bounded Bing public-search result lookup is attempted before the
final search-link response.
challenge, a bounded Bing public-search result lookup is attempted for
open-ended, procedural, opinion, comparison, and controversy questions before
the final search-link response.
If no reliable source answer exists, the bot returns a bounded DuckDuckGo search
link instead of pretending that it knows the answer. Responses remain
source-grounded, sanitized, one-line, and bounded by `max_length` and
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions docs/plugins.md
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Expand Up @@ -1164,8 +1164,9 @@ timeouts and response sizes. Private, local, and non-HTTP destinations are
rejected. The response is sanitized,
limited to one IRC line, and includes a cited source link when available.
If DuckDuckGo's rendered page is unavailable or presents an anti-automation
challenge, GoBot makes one bounded Bing public-search result lookup and applies
the same relevance, URL-safety, and excerpt rules.
challenge, GoBot makes one bounded Bing public-search result lookup for
open-ended, procedural, opinion, comparison, and controversy questions, then
applies the same relevance, URL-safety, and excerpt rules.
Each provider has a bounded sub-timeout so a slow Search Assist request cannot
consume the entire lookup window; transient DuckDuckGo Instant Answer failures
are retried within the same invocation. Successful answers are cached in memory
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions plugins/ask_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -282,6 +282,10 @@ func TestAskNeedsWebResultAnswer(t *testing.T) {
"Why is this comedian controversial?",
"What makes this service unpopular?",
"Why do people criticize this product?",
"why is ari shaffir considered a faggot?",
"why is ari shaffir not liked much?",
"how do i install FreeBSD in Proxmox?",
"how do I install OpenBSD?",
} {
if !askNeedsWebResultAnswer(question) {
t.Fatalf("askNeedsWebResultAnswer(%q) = false; want web-result fallback", question)
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