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Licensed to be used in conjunction with basebox, only.
Web Search
The Web Search connector lets the basebox assistant query the public web in real time, using DuckDuckGo as the search backend.
When to use it
Enable Web Search when users need answers that depend on current, public information — for example:
- recent news and announcements,
- product or vendor lookups,
- public reference material that is not in your internal wiki or RAG corpus.
If your use case is purely internal (e.g. clinical SOPs, internal documentation), you typically do not need Web Search — use DokuWiki or a RAG app instead.
Configuration
On the Admin → Connectors page:
- Find Web Search.
- Toggle it On.
That is the entire configuration. Web Search does not require any credentials.
Privacy notes
- Queries are sent to DuckDuckGo. They leave your basebox deployment.
- No basebox user identity is sent with the query.
- If your environment is fully air-gapped, Web Search will not function.
Limitations
- Results reflect what DuckDuckGo indexes; coverage of specialised or paywalled sources may be limited.
- Rate limits imposed by DuckDuckGo apply.