Just set up SearXNG locally if you want a free/local web search MCP: https://gist.github.com/tripplyons/a2f9d8bd553802f9296a7ec3b...

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disiplus 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's what i have together with open webui and gpt-oss-120b. it works reasonably well. But sometimes the searches are slow.

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tripplyons 11 hours ago | parent [-]

You can try removing search engines that fail or reducing their timeout setting to something faster than the default of a few seconds.

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disiplus 11 hours ago | parent [-]

SearXNG is fast, its mostly the code that triggers the searches. Because, my daily is chatgpt, i still did not try to tweak it.

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tripplyons 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I haven't needed to tweak mine for similar reasons, but I'm surprised to hear that the "code that triggers the searches" is slow. Are you referring to something in Open WebUI?

	▲	disiplus 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's tools that you can install from open webui https://openwebui.com/tools

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mchiang 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I haven't tried SearXNG personally. How does it compare to Ollama's web search in terms of the search content returned?

	▲	tripplyons 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have no idea how well Ollama's works, but I haven't ran into any issues with SearXNG. The alternatives aren't worth paying for in any use case I've encountered.

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