diff --git a/requirements-alternative.txt b/requirements-alternative.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index a2f2723d75..0000000000
--- a/requirements-alternative.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-# I wasn't having any luck installing the requirements.txt file in Mac or Linux
-# But this seems to work.
-# The biggest difference is docker 5 instead of 6, because of this silliness:
-#
-# The conflict is caused by:
-#     The user requested requests>=2.26.0
-#     docker 6.0.1 depends on requests>=2.26.0
-#     googlesearch-python 1.1.0 depends on requests==2.25.1
-docker==5.0.3
-
-# I'd love to fix this in a cleaner way
-
-# Now go ahead and install the rest of what requirements.txt says:
--r requirements.txt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7961106b6c..158e932419 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,5 @@ requests
 tiktoken==0.3.3
 gTTS==2.3.1
 docker
-googlesearch-python
+duckduckgo-search
 google-api-python-client #(https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview) 
-# Googlesearch python seems to be a bit cursed, anyone good at fixing thigns like this?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/commands.py b/scripts/commands.py
index ed789c8e92..f8f96fe72c 100644
--- a/scripts/commands.py
+++ b/scripts/commands.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import ai_functions as ai
 from file_operations import read_file, write_to_file, append_to_file, delete_file
 from execute_code import execute_python_file
 from json_parser import fix_and_parse_json
-from googlesearch import search
+from duckduckgo_search import ddg
 from googleapiclient.discovery import build
 from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError
 
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def get_datetime():
 
 def google_search(query, num_results=8):
     search_results = []
-    for j in search(query, num_results=num_results):
+    for j in ddg(query, max_results=num_results):
         search_results.append(j)
 
     return json.dumps(search_results, ensure_ascii=False, indent=4)