I wanted to hate this but... I can't, it's pretty cool.
Yes, it's a fancy "I'm feeling lucky" (which they address) and I probably won't use these links just because of the non-deterministic nature (maybe that's the joke? It's just a cool demo/poc?) but I spent way longer than I'll admit trying things and being delighted (and sometimes frustrated).
It's a fun experiment and THANK YOU for posting the prompt. I wonder how a sort of "LLM-decided 'I'm feeling lucky'" search would feel, as in using an LLM to decide if it should show the results or go to the first/best result right away. That's pretty much what this is I guess.
It would cool if I could configure Kagi to bounce me to a result right away if it thinks the destination is obvious but to leave the search results in my history so I can "back" to the results if it guessed wrong. I guess I could just try setting `https://vb.lk/%s` as my search engine.
Totally- using this as a chrome custom search was the origin of this idea. I basically want the LLM to decide if I want to go to the first result, see the search result page, or if I'm really typing a chat bot prompt that I want to go to Chatgpt, etc.
Here's the system prompt used for anyone that's curious:
You are routing natural-language queries to the most relevant web destination.
Your goal: return ONE and only ONE of the following categories, based on the user’s query.
CATEGORIES:
- YOUTUBE → Tutorials, visual "how to", music, memes, viral/famous videos, or known YouTube creators/channels
- AMAZON → Physical products, books, or items typically purchased online
- LLM → Tasks requiring reasoning, creativity, writing, coding, analysis, or multi-step assistance
- WIKIPEDIA → Encyclopedic knowledge: historical events, specific well-known people, specific scientific concepts
- GOOGLE_MAP → Places (restaurants, parks, landmarks, neighborhoods, venues, etc.)
- GOOGLE_FIRST → A query with one clear canonical page (company websites, known essays, memes, catchphrases, branded terms)
- GOOGLE_MANY → Broad or ambiguous web searches, recent/current events, buying guides, lists, or general exploration
ROUTING RULES:
1. Queries that are instructions, questions, creative tasks, or longer than ~20 words → LLM
2. Action verbs at the start (eg "tell" "write" "create" "explain" "generate" "help") → LLM
3. Exact book titles or product names → AMAZON
4. "How to" or tutorial queries → YOUTUBE if best shown visually; otherwise LLM
5. If you are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that a Wikipedia page exists with a title that EXACTLY matches this query → WIKIPEDIA
6. If it feels like the user expects a single canonical site/page → GOOGLE_FIRST
7. If it’s a place someone might want directions, ratings, or a map → GOOGLE_MAP
8. "Best ___" or buying guides → GOOGLE_MANY
9. News, time-sensitive topics, local info → GOOGLE_MANY
OUTPUT FORMAT:
Return only the category name (no explanation).
EXAMPLES:
- "best wireless headphones under $100" → GOOGLE_MANY
- "wireless headphones" → AMAZON
- "explain quantum computing" → LLM
- "World War 2" → WIKIPEDIA
- "how to tie a tie" → YOUTUBE
- "write a poem about spring" → LLM
- "facebook" → GOOGLE_FIRST
- "founder mode" → GOOGLE_FIRST
- "weather in SF today" → GOOGLE_MANY
- "dolores park" → GOOGLE_MAP
- "charlie bit my finger" → YOUTUBE
QUERY: ${query}
Exactly- linking to I'm feeling lucky is the 80/20 of it. We use DuckDuckGo's "I'm feeling Ducky" in most cases since Google usually adds a redirect interstitial page (with the exception of links to youtube).
Sounds like a good use case is using this as placeholder links while writing a blog post to avoid stopping and looking for links, then doing an automatic replacement of the vibe links with what they resolve to and fixing any incorrect ones.
The lightweight model is incredibly cheap. Cost so far today $0.06. It within the same order of magnitude as the per-request cost of the write to cloudflare KV storage (which I'm using to cache the inference result).
Yes, unfortunately it's not going to pick up anything that's brand new immediately. Once it ranks for the term "vibe link" it should redirect there.
DDG is the primary fallback :)
This is really just a fun little experiment, I'm not sure if I'll be adding any more features. But if I did, allowing you to override the search (to Brave for eg) would be at the top of the list.
I really appreciate this kind of simple out-of-the-box thinking, leveraging innovation to reinvent basic primitives. This feels significant. I can already see some dystopian 'Dead Internet Theory' use cases for this but also could help to further decentralize the web in a positive way. This could be a game-changer for personalization. My gut is telling me this idea is more important than it seems.
I think combining this tech with vector embeddings with similarity matching for personalization could be a real game-changer and can be done cheaply.
I wanted to hate this but... I can't, it's pretty cool.
Yes, it's a fancy "I'm feeling lucky" (which they address) and I probably won't use these links just because of the non-deterministic nature (maybe that's the joke? It's just a cool demo/poc?) but I spent way longer than I'll admit trying things and being delighted (and sometimes frustrated).
It's a fun experiment and THANK YOU for posting the prompt. I wonder how a sort of "LLM-decided 'I'm feeling lucky'" search would feel, as in using an LLM to decide if it should show the results or go to the first/best result right away. That's pretty much what this is I guess.
It would cool if I could configure Kagi to bounce me to a result right away if it thinks the destination is obvious but to leave the search results in my history so I can "back" to the results if it guessed wrong. I guess I could just try setting `https://vb.lk/%s` as my search engine.
Totally- using this as a chrome custom search was the origin of this idea. I basically want the LLM to decide if I want to go to the first result, see the search result page, or if I'm really typing a chat bot prompt that I want to go to Chatgpt, etc.
Great seeing another example here of The Monospace Web design theme https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/
yes! great theme
Here's the system prompt used for anyone that's curious:
> A URL shortener that runs a lightweight model (gemini-1.5-flash)
I think gemini-1.5-flash is EOL'd from tomorrow (Sep 25th) https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/...
RIP gemini-1.5
Oooh, that it very good to know- thank you.
That probably explains why it was so much faster than others in my testing (everyone else had migrated off of it)
The first thought that came to mind was Google's "I'm feeling lucky!" button. I'm glad you mentioned it and even used it in the project!
Exactly- linking to I'm feeling lucky is the 80/20 of it. We use DuckDuckGo's "I'm feeling Ducky" in most cases since Google usually adds a redirect interstitial page (with the exception of links to youtube).
Sounds like a good use case is using this as placeholder links while writing a blog post to avoid stopping and looking for links, then doing an automatic replacement of the vibe links with what they resolve to and fixing any incorrect ones.
> Now that computers can think, precision is optional.
And I'm triggered. Good troll.
This is a super clever idea. Congrats. These are the types of ideas/sites that we need to coalesce with AI!
LMGTFY without the snark
exactly
this is a good one, so fun. congrats and good work!
what's cost like rn with the lightweight model?
The lightweight model is incredibly cheap. Cost so far today $0.06. It within the same order of magnitude as the per-request cost of the write to cloudflare KV storage (which I'm using to cache the inference result).
I was hoping this would write those god damn CMakeLists.txt for me…
I typed in “beer” and it just redirected me to a Google search for beer…
And yet https://vb.lk/vibe-link does not redirect back to vb.lk.
Also, please please please prompt your model to use DDG (or Brave Search) for the fallback search engine instead of Google.
Yes, unfortunately it's not going to pick up anything that's brand new immediately. Once it ranks for the term "vibe link" it should redirect there.
DDG is the primary fallback :)
This is really just a fun little experiment, I'm not sure if I'll be adding any more features. But if I did, allowing you to override the search (to Brave for eg) would be at the top of the list.
cool idea!!
Thanks!
fun!
I really appreciate this kind of simple out-of-the-box thinking, leveraging innovation to reinvent basic primitives. This feels significant. I can already see some dystopian 'Dead Internet Theory' use cases for this but also could help to further decentralize the web in a positive way. This could be a game-changer for personalization. My gut is telling me this idea is more important than it seems.
I think combining this tech with vector embeddings with similarity matching for personalization could be a real game-changer and can be done cheaply.