Putting together all the AI-powered web search software we know of

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Started listing [here](https://github.com/felladrin/awesome-ai-web-search) all the AI-powered web search software I was aware of. Besides being useful for users looking for alternatives to existing software, having a timeline helps to see how the space evolves. Please join the effort by adding any other software you know of. You can do so by [editing the readme file](https://github.com/felladrin/awesome-ai-web-search/blob/main/readme.md), [opening an issue](https://github.com/felladrin/awesome-ai-web-search/issues), or commenting directly in this post.

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FesseJerguson@reddit

Nice someone please have Claude write a swarm agent like system that utilizes them all and consolidates it into once concise report

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sickleRunner@reddit

you can check this DeepSeek R1 api which has access to the internet [https://deadlock.up.nadles.com/checkout/xMzXXxEGYKP988XQi727eg](https://deadlock.up.nadles.com/checkout/xMzXXxEGYKP988XQi727eg)

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FesseJerguson@reddit

Oh and I wanna be able to use ollama for most of the agents but put it all together with Claude

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visionsmemories@reddit

problem is this seems really good on paper, but as for actual applications - there isnt an immediate advantage you get from it; so you just decide not to make it yourself and so do almost everyone else

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adrenoceptor@reddit

Poe (iOS and OS X and Web) has a “Web-Search” official bot

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Nice! Will add it to the list!

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Affectionate-Hat-536@reddit

Very useful, I am in process of writing a blog for options around this. 🙏

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muxxington@reddit

I will read it. Link?

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Affectionate-Hat-536@reddit

Not completed yet, will surely share once published.

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Away_Art850@reddit

Super excited to see what you've written!

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KTibow@reddit

Does Exa count?

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

It does. When you [search there](https://exa.ai/search) and click "Show more info" in any search result, it generates a summary, relating your query to the link, using an LLM.

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KTibow@reddit

Nvm I thought you were missing Exa at first, turns out you had it from the start and I just missed it

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Enough-Meringue4745@reddit

lists are cool but largely useless

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Shir_man@reddit

Btw, has anyone seen a framework or agent that can read a CSV file, web search for information based on each table value (including calling external APIs), and then write the search results in a specific format?

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Chemical_Ad1778@reddit

Working on a small side project that does a variation of this if you can share your specific use case via DM I might be able to help.

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SnailsArentReal@reddit

You could use dify.ai to do that. It's an open source tool for building genAI powered workflows.

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Shir_man@reddit

Thank you, I will check it out

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Affectionate-Hat-536@reddit

Check phidata agent framework saw tools covering most of your ask.

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Good question! None currently in the list seems to be capable of that, but I remember I saw someone sharing here on LocalLlama a formula for Google Spreadsheet that allows querying an LLM for each line of the imported CSV file. This could be a starting point for researching.

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nightkall@reddit

Here are some more: \- [https://monica.so](https://monica.so) \- [https://search.brave.com](https://search.brave.com) \- [https://kagi.com/fastgpt](https://kagi.com/fastgpt)

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Great additions! I just noticed you've already opened a PR to add them! Will look into it now. See you there!

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Lost_midia@reddit

Can I run an llma model on an orange pi win A64?

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Fusseldieb@reddit

Maybe extremely small ones like 1B or whatnot, but they're mostly "useless", unless it's something extremely straightforward or finetuned.

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Lost_midia@reddit

I thought about making a RAG with some Java documentation so it would be specific to solving problems in Java. Would it work? There are 512Mb of RAM

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Fusseldieb@reddit

I think it needs some real-world knowledge too, so it can "understand" what you say.

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Lost_midia@reddit

Yes. Thanks :)

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TheRealMasonMac@reddit

There is Kagi

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Everlier@reddit

Came here to mention it as well. Kagi Assistant is the one most useful sub I have.

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AIposting@reddit

I love Kagi, feels like web searches from a decade ago (in a good way). Shame you have to buy API credits separately if you wanted to hook up your own agent to a local LLM, but I guess a little webscraping would solve that easily enough.

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TheRealMasonMac@reddit

[https://kagifeedback.org/d/1624-free-api-allotment-for-subscribers](https://kagifeedback.org/d/1624-free-api-allotment-for-subscribers) \> Mostly because any sort of automated use would probably propel the costs for us to the skies, and we are already on razor thin margins. So this is why we ask users to pay for additional scripted usage via the API.

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Everlier@reddit

I'm not sure how you guys have any margins at all with no limits at the higher plans. I'm sure I've spent more your money on sonnet 3.5 alone than I paid you, even including prior to when assistant was introduced.

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TheRealMasonMac@reddit

I'm not an employee, idk. But I know they had to send some emails to high-use users about it politely asking them to reduce their usage.

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AIposting@reddit

Very understandable, thanks for clarifying. It's incredible how much you've been able to accomplish so far, I'd be very sad if I had to go back to Google products if anything happened to Kagi and Proton.

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Thank you both! I’ve just found [the official post about it](https://blog.kagi.com/announcing-assistant). Will at it to the list on the next update today.

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Revolutionary_War984@reddit

+1 👌🏼

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flashmoregash@reddit

https://thegigabrain.com/ GigaBrain scans billions of discussions on reddit and other online communities to find the most useful posts and comments for you

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MoffKalast@reddit

> "Get real answers. From real people." That sounds suspiciously like it's actually fake answers from fake people.

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Affectionate-Hat-536@reddit

This is good one! I’m

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Looks great! Will add it on the next update today. Thanks for sharing!

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saintshing@reddit

Reddit should just acquire them.

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WesternTall3929@reddit

Oh man, it’s going down, this is exactly the type of data I need

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abellimz@reddit

[you.com](https://you.com)

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Thanks! This one is already on the list! \[[Reference](https://github.com/felladrin/awesome-ai-web-search?tab=readme-ov-file#closed-source)\]

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jrhizor@reddit

Any particular high performers out of all these options?

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Square-Intention465@reddit

try pravah

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CrzyFlky@reddit

Among closed source: perplexity, exa, and gigabrain; and if u can pay, its Kagi.

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Enough-Meringue4745@reddit

localllama

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CrzyFlky@reddit

If you open the site, you will see lists of both. someone else can benchmark open models. \- humble GPU poor guy

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trenchgun@reddit

Does any of them offer a feature where you just get the best result, filtered by the LLM?

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Hey, u/trenchgun! You asked me about it before, but [my answer](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1g9d9jr/comment/lu9d2v4/) is still the same, unfortunately.

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trenchgun@reddit

See here: https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1844198211130691766 But yeah: > - not deployed yet, probably won't (expensive af) https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1844174273948025176

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Great finding! Looks like a project from u/SrPeixinho. Maybe he could consider selling the project?

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trenchgun@reddit

I think the issue is that it is prohibitevely expensive.

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trenchgun@reddit

Ah I did not realize you are you. But this result is very interesting.

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Enti9@reddit

You.com

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Thanks! This one is already on the list! \[[Reference](https://github.com/felladrin/awesome-ai-web-search?tab=readme-ov-file#closed-source)\]

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Fleshybum@reddit

So which ones can be run locally?

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JungianJester@reddit

Thanks for your research work. I have been using Perplexica for a few months, prior to that it was searXNG inside open webui which is adequate for most needs. Anyway there are about a dozen of programs newer than Perplexica, unfortunately there does not appear to be an easy Docker install for most which means people who rely on a Docker Compose method will likely bypass programs which can't easily be containerized.

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saintshing@reddit

Getliner, felo are pretty good. Getliner: you can see clear breakdown of the query into subqueries, filter by time, exclude individual sources, get summary of each source, use scholarly sources only, etc Felo: similar to getliner, has less filters but has a nice mindmap function There is also webpilot. More basic. But I like how it gives a short summary of the answer and then goes in depth to elaborate on each key point.

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Thank you! I've just gathered some info about them and will add all three to the list soon!

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GreedyWorking1499@reddit

Do you have any plans to add things like benchmarks?

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Unfortunately, I don’t plan to do it. Web searching is a very personal experience. I can only recommend users to visit and read about each tool listed there, then, if there’s any particular feature they want on their current web searching platform, that they request it to the developers. This will indirectly make the web-searching space better, as one tool influences the other.

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muxxington@reddit

Thanks. I will work through this list. One question: Does one of these programs offer an API which can then be used with tools e.g. from Open-WebUI?

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Felladrin@reddit (OP)

Not that I know of. But I also don’t think it’s necessary, as Open WebUI already supports connecting search engines to the chat, including SearXNG, which is the metasearch engine most used by the open source tools listed there. Was there any specific feature you found in one of them that is not available in Open WebUI?

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