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Re: Ollama Web Search
#2My biggest gripe with small models has been the inability to keep it informed with new data. Seems like this at least eases the process.
Re: Ollama Web Search
#3My biggest gripe with small models has been the inability to keep it informed with new data. Seems like this at least eases the process.
I was pleasantly surprised on the model improvements when testing this feature.
For smaller models, it can augment it with the latest data by fetching it from the web, solving the problem of smaller models lacking specific knowledge.
For larger models, it can start functioning as deep research.
Re: Ollama Web Search
#4Just set up SearXNG locally if you want a free/local web search MCP: https://gist.github.com/tripplyons/a2f9d8bd553802f9296a7ec3b...
Re: Ollama Web Search
#5Just set up SearXNG locally if you want a free/local web search MCP: https://gist.github.com/tripplyons/a2f9d8bd553802f9296a7ec3b...
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Re: Ollama Web Search
#6Just set up SearXNG locally if you want a free/local web search MCP: https://gist.github.com/tripplyons/a2f9d8bd553802f9296a7ec3b...
I haven't tried SearXNG personally. How does it compare to Ollama's web search in terms of the search content returned?
Re: Ollama Web Search
#7I had no idea they had their own cloud offering, I thought the whole point of Ollama was local models? Why would I pay $20/month to use small inferior models instead of using one of the usual AI companies like OpenAI or even Mistral? I'm not going to make an account to use models on my own computer.
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#8Do they pull their own index like brave or are they using Bing/Google in the background?
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#9I'd love to know what search engine provider they're using under the hood for this. I asked them on Twitter and didn't get a reply (yet) https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1971210260015919488
Crucially, I want to understand the license that applies to the search results. Can I store them, can I re-publish them? Different providers have different rules about this.
Re: Ollama Web Search
#10I had no idea they had their own cloud offering, I thought the whole point of Ollama was local models? Why would I pay $20/month to use small inferior models instead of using one of the usual AI companies like OpenAI or even Mistral? I'm not going to make an account to use models on my own computer.
Fair question. Some of the supported models are large and wouldn't fit on most local devices. This is just the beginning, and Ollama does not need to exclude cloud hosted frontier models either with the relationship we've built with the model providers. We just have to be mindful and understand that Ollama stands with developers, and solve the needs.