Questions

What is Foxhole Web?

A search engine that answers your question instead of handing you links. It runs a live web search, reads what comes back, and writes one answer with a citation behind each claim.

How is this different from a normal search engine?

An ordinary engine gives you ten links and leaves the reading and cross checking to you. Foxhole Web does that part, then shows its work so you can check it.

How is it different from a chatbot?

A chatbot answers from what it memorised during training, which goes stale and cannot be verified. Foxhole Web is not allowed to answer from memory. Every answer is built from pages fetched at the moment you ask, and every claim points at one of them.

Can I trust the answers?

Not blindly, no. The model can misread a source or cite one that does not quite support the claim. That is exactly why the citations are there. Click them when the answer matters.

Where does my question actually go?

Two places. To Brave Search, to fetch live results, and to Groq, which runs the open source model that writes the answer. Neither receives your name, your email, or your account, only the question itself.

The model is Qwen, an open weights model anyone can inspect or run themselves. It is not OpenAI or Google, and nothing you ask is used to train it.

Why does it ask for my location?

Only so local questions work. Ask about the weather and the answer is useless without knowing roughly where you are. It is off until you turn it on, your position is rounded to about a kilometre before it leaves your device, and it is never stored or attached to your account.

Can I ask a follow up?

Yes. After any answer there is a box to ask the next question, and it remembers what you just asked. Ask "who is Dolly Parton" then "what songs was she known for" and it knows who "she" is, then runs a fresh search for the real question rather than searching for the word "she".

Do I need an account?

No. Search works signed out, and nothing you ask is recorded against you. An account adds search history and saved answers.

Why is there no password?

Because passwords get reused, forgotten, and stolen. Enter your email, click the link we send, and you are in. There is nothing to remember and nothing for us to leak.

My sign in link did not arrive.

Check spam first. Links expire after fifteen minutes and work only once, so if you sat on it, ask for another. Still nothing? Tell us.

Is every answer really fresh?

Nearly. When somebody asks a question we answered in the last three quarters of an hour, we show that answer again rather than paying to generate an identical one. Ask something nobody has asked recently, which is most questions, and it runs a live search. Anything older is always searched again.

Why is it sometimes slow?

Every question triggers a live web search, and then a model reading those results before writing anything. That is a few seconds of real work. We stream the answer as it is written so you can start reading immediately.

Is it free? How do you make money?

It is free. Right now, when a question is about buying something, we show a shopping link and earn a commission if you buy through it. That is the only way this makes any money at the moment. We are not running any advertising, though we expect to sell it directly ourselves at some point rather than through an ad network.

Whatever happens with that, it will never touch the answer. No advertiser, now or later, will be able to change what an answer says, which sources it draws on, or the order they appear in. The shopping links are built from your question and from what the answer already recommended, never the other way round. Every search costs us real money to run, and this is how that gets paid for.

An answer was wrong. What do I do?

Tell us, please. Email the exact question and what went wrong to [email protected]. Wrong answers are the most useful thing anyone can send us.

Can I delete my data?

Yes. Remove saved answers from your account page, or email us to delete the account and everything attached to it. See the privacy policy for what we hold and why.

Who is behind it?

Foxhole Research, Inc., a small company in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are looking for beta testers and founding team members.