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No, a lot of them have LLMs integrated into their search engine, but they themselves are not LLMs.

The search engine I use (SearXNG) is what’s called a meta-search-engine, meaning it runs my query through several different search engines (which I can toggle on or off at will), then parses the results from all of the queries engines, strips out all of the slop bullshit, and returns me actually relevant links.

I think if you wanted to you could attach an LLM to a self-hosted SearXNG instance, but I’m not putting LLM fuckware on my system. I prefer my computations to be deterministic.

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No, they have LLMs integrated, but they themselves are not the search engine

The search engine I use (SearXNG) is what’s called a meta-search-engine, meaning it runs my query through several different search engines (which I can toggle on or off at will), then parses the results from all of the queries engines, strips out all of the slop bullshit, and returns me actually relevant links.

I think if you wanted to you could attach an LLM to a self-hosted SearXNG instance, but I’m not putting LLM fuckware on my system. I prefer my computations to be deterministic.