Private Search with Perplexica and Ollama

Perplexica is an open-source, AI-powered search tool that goes beyond basic web searches to deeply understand and respond to your questions. Inspired by Perplexity AI, it leverages advanced machine learning techniques such as similarity searching and embeddings to refine results and provide clear, well-cited answers.By utilising SearxNG, Perplexica ensures it remains fully open-source and current, delivering the latest information while safeguarding your privacy.

Installation

1. Install docker if you don’t have it.
2. Install Ollama

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After installation run :

ollama run mistral

3. Clone Perplexica

git clone https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica.git

cd Perplexica

4. Rename sample.config.toml to config.toml

5. Open config.toml and place the value “http://host.docker.internal:11434” for the key OLLAMA

6. Then run the docker compose

docker compose up -d

7. After few seconds, you can open http://localhost:3000 and then you will see the following: