DuckDuckGo Search
Your AI agent does not need to know everything upfront. When a customer asks a question outside your training data, the agent searches the web through DuckDuckGo, finds current and accurate answers, and responds with sourced information. Always up-to-date, never stale, no credentials required.
Your AI agent breaks free from static knowledge bases by searching the open web in real time, delivering current answers to any question your customers throw at it.
DuckDuckGo Search
From handling obscure product questions to fact-checking claims, see how AI agents use live web search to fill knowledge gaps and deliver expert-level answers.
A customer asks about shipping regulations to a specific country that is not covered in your documentation. Your AI Agent searches DuckDuckGo for the latest customs and import requirements, finds authoritative government sources, and provides a clear summary with a link to the official guidelines. The customer gets a helpful answer immediately instead of waiting for someone to research it manually.
A prospect asks how your service compares to a competitor's current pricing. Your AI Agent runs a DuckDuckGo search for the competitor's pricing page, extracts the relevant tier information, and positions your offering against real, current data. The prospect receives an honest, well-informed comparison. Your sales team closes more deals with accurate competitive intelligence delivered instantly.
A financial services customer asks whether a new compliance rule affects their account configuration. Your AI Agent searches DuckDuckGo for the regulation by name, finds the most recent official guidance, and summarizes the key requirements. The customer gets regulatory clarity in seconds. Your compliance team avoids a queue of repetitive regulatory interpretation requests.
DuckDuckGo Search
FAQs
No. DuckDuckGo Search is a built-in tool in Tars that requires no API keys, OAuth, or account setup. Simply enable it in your agent configuration and it is ready to use. This makes it the fastest integration to deploy for giving your agent web search capabilities.
Your AI agent is configured with a knowledge base and instructions. When a customer question falls outside that scope, the agent recognizes the gap and triggers a DuckDuckGo search automatically. You can also configure explicit triggers, for example, always searching for pricing, competitor, or regulatory questions.
Both options are available. By default, the agent retrieves search results with titles, snippets, and URLs. With the summarization flag enabled, the agent processes those results into a coherent, conversational answer. You control whether customers see links, summaries, or a combination.
The default is 5 results per search, but you can configure this up to any number using the max_results parameter. For most customer conversations, 3 to 5 results provide enough context for the agent to synthesize a comprehensive answer without information overload.
Yes. DuckDuckGo is built on privacy-first principles and does not track users or build search profiles. Search queries made through the Tars integration follow the same privacy standards. Neither DuckDuckGo nor Tars links search activity back to individual customers.
Yes. The query_prefix parameter lets you prepend terms like 'site:docs.example.com' to every search. This scopes results to specific domains, such as your documentation site, a trusted industry resource, or official government portals. Great for ensuring the agent pulls from authoritative sources.
If the search produces no useful results, the agent falls back to its training data or informs the customer that it could not find current information. It can then offer to connect the customer with a human agent or suggest refining their question. No dead ends in the conversation.
Training data is static, becoming outdated the moment something changes. DuckDuckGo Search gives your agent access to the current web in real time. Pricing changes, new regulations, competitor updates, and breaking news are all instantly available without retraining. It complements your knowledge base rather than replacing it.
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