Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered searching tool or an AI-powered search engine that goes deep into the internet to find answers. Inspired by Perplexity AI, it's an open-source option that not just searches the web but understands your questions. It uses advanced machine learning algorithms like similarity searching and embeddings to refine results and provides clear answers with sources cited.
- **Copilot Mode:** (In development) Boosts search by generating different queries to find more relevant internet sources. Like normal search instead of just using the context by SearxNG, it visits the top matches and tries to find relevant sources to the user's query directly from the page.
- **Normal Mode:** Processes your query and performs a web search.
-**All Mode:** Searches the entire web to find the best results.
-**Writing Assistant Mode:** Helpful for writing tasks that does not require searching the web.
-**Academic Search Mode:** Finds articles and papers, ideal for academic research.
- **YouTube Search Mode:** Finds YouTube videos based on the search query.
- **Wolfram Alpha Search Mode:** Answers queries that need calculations or data analysis using Wolfram Alpha.
- **Reddit Search Mode:** Searches Reddit for discussions and opinions related to the query.
- **Current Information:** Some search tools might give you outdated info because they use data from crawling bots and convert them into embeddings and store them in a index. Unlike them, Perplexica uses SearxNG, a metasearch engine to get the results and rerank and get the most relevent source out of it, ensuring you always get the latest information without the overhead of daily data updates.
-`CHAT_MODEL_PROVIDER`: The chat model provider, either `openai` or `ollama`. Depending upon which provider you use you would have to fill in the following fields:
-`OPENAI`: Your OpenAI API key. **You only need to fill this if you wish to use OpenAI's models.**
-`OLLAMA`: Your Ollama API URL. **You need to fill this if you wish to use Ollama's models instead of OpenAI's.**
1. Follow the initial steps to clone the repository and rename the `sample.config.toml` file to `config.toml` in the root directory. You will need to fill in all the fields in this file.
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Perplexica is built on the idea that AI and large language models should be easy for everyone to use. If you find bugs or have ideas, please share them in via GitHub Issues. For more information on contributing to Perplexica you can read the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file to learn more about Perplexica and how you can contribute to it.
