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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.

SearchRAGSelf-hosted

for agents & scripts

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