🤗 ask people!
People-powered search.
Extension now works on search engines!
Ask People helps you search over 50 million topics, based on sources like Wikidata — the largest public knowledge base.
For advice, how-to guides, and recommendations, it finds answers on forums like Reddit and Stack Overflow, from real people.
You can also get instant answers from Thaura, using 93% less energy than ChatGPT.
While searching, you can save answers — making it easy for people to find helpful results, and expanding the database of answers.
It's also open-source and can be self-hosted. What if search could be community-run?
Benefits:
✅ No need for new data centers. Each topic answer uses 0.3% of the energy compared to A.I. tools, and each saved answer uses 0.03% of the energy.
Energy Comparisons
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ChatGPT
100% -
Google Search
10% -
🤗 ask people!
Topic Answer
0.3% -
🤗 ask people!
Saved Answer
0.03%
As more people ask questions on Ask People, the database of saved answers grows, meaning more answers and knowledge provided with far less compute (even than Google searches).
✅ Search and answers can be hosted by people, instead of corporations.
✅ You can have search offline, without an Internet connection.
✅ No tracking or surveillance
✅ Bring people into conversation on discussion forums like Stack Overflow and Reddit
