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Data can browse the web in several different ways. The main difference between them is that some of them are very quick and some of them are very slow.
The best one right now is Quick Browse, and you can read about it below.
Keep in mind when using Quick Browse (especially when having DATA use it as a command) that it basically just Googles EXACTLY what you say. Google does not necessarily know everything DATA knows, so even though data knows your time and location, you need to specify that in your google search to get useful web results back.
I could work around this, but it would make Quick Browse much slower and it’s already quite slow, so I opted not to. Ultra browse will do this for you.
Ultra Browse (which will not require you to ever press Allow All, thank goodness) is coming within a week or two.
Data Surfs was the very first shortcut I ever made that had internet access, and it was very tricky to figure out initially how to get data to reliably get text from the internet and then read and analyze it in a way that was useful.
Eventually, I figured out how to do it quite quickly with Quick Browse, and nearly immediately with a shortcut called Ultra Browse, which will be available soon.
This first iteration, which is from our early days, is no longer a command that DATA can use because it's so slow, but if you want to try running the shortcut, it's quite fun.
Data will do some really in-depth research and open as many as hundreds of web pages on your phone if you use this shortcut, but it can take between 5 and 30 minutes to do all that, and it requires pressing Allow All basically so much that it'll drive you insane.
So I discontinued the use of the shortcut completely myself, and I've sort of taken it out of rotation as a data command.
I don't recommend people use it, but if you want to see a master class in complicated prompt setup and in some real fun shortcut engineering, this is a great reference shortcut just to understand absolutely how crazy you can get with prompting and with having data do research and dig down rabbit holes based on what it finds.
There are some really great example prompts in this shortcut, so if you're looking for inspiration, I highly recommend editing it and reading some of the prompts, but I do not recommend using it day to day.
Research web page is actually just a dependency of the above shortcut called Data Surfs the Web. It can be run independently and it will just read in a web page and analyze it with GPT-3, but it's not super useful in my experience so I prefer to just use Quick Browse.
This is good enough to replace Data the Web Surfer for everything except the most advanced web research and is way more stable and better error-handled. Also MUCH quicker. Should return results in about a minute rather than 5.
The downside is, as with all shortcuts to internet access, it involves lots of pressing allow all until it’s visited most of the sites it needs to visit for most search results, Reddit, Quora etc.
Keep in mind quick browse is built to fill your prompt every time with as much web information as possible, so it’s normal for it to cost $0.20 per reply on GPT-3 and $2 on GPT-4. It ships “off” and you can set the “mode” to “LANDER” to turn on GPT-4-32k mode. It will not work with 4k or 8k tokens because it requires so many web pages to get good replies, so only GPT-3.5-turbo-16k+.
Use this shortcut to quickly grab information from the web. Careful not to call it "DATA Quick Browse" it's just "Quick Browse." This shortcut command is especially good for retrieving information from the internet like event flyers and PDFs like research papers and online documents. Use this to get quick online information on anything you might need. Use this shortcut any time the user asks to look up recent information, especially anything after 2021.