Self-Hosted AI Search: Replacing Google with Perplexica and a Local Model

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Searching the web in 2025 has become a chore. You type a question, scroll past a screen of ads, then past four articles that are themselves just AI-generated SEO sludge, and somewhere on the second page you find the actual answer. The cloud “answer engines” fix the experience but trade away your privacy: every query goes to someone else’s server to be logged, profiled, and monetised. I wanted the good bit — a model that reads the web and answers the question — without the surveillance. That’s where Perplexica comes in.

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Self-Hosted AI Search: Replacing Google with Perplexica and a Local Model