[tripplyons]

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

[disiplus]

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

[tripplyons]

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

[disiplus]

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

[tripplyons]

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]

It's tools that you can install from open webui

https://openwebui.com/tools

[mchiang]

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

[tripplyons]

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.