Application
Apps & UIsRetrieval & Memory
Perplexica
1An 2open-source 3AI 4answer 5search 6engine
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Open-source project by ItzCrazyKns.
W2
What
An AI answer engine that searches and cites the web.
W3
Where
Self-hosted via Docker, using SearXNG.
W4
When
When you want a private Perplexity-style search.
W5
Why
Open, self-hostable web answering without a subscription.
W6
With
Docker, a search backend, and an LLM provider.
W7
Watch
Community-maintained; open-source (MIT), self-hostable and can use local models. Web queries go to the search backend you configure.
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