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Hister is an open‑source self‑hosted search engine that indexes the full text of visited web pages and local files, offering both keyword and optional semantic search via a web UI, CLI, TUI, and MCP client. It runs locally with no telemetry and can be installed via binary, Homebrew, Docker, or Nix.
Scry is a read‑only, SQL‑like search service that lets LLM agents query billions of public‑web records (e.g. Reddit, Hacker News, academic papers) via a single MCP or HTTP endpoint. It enforces per‑query limits (deadline, memory, row cap), offers schema discovery, explain, rerank, and compile APIs, and reports freshness per source (e.g. Hacker News <15 min). In a DeepSearchQA benchmark Scry‑enabl…
The paper introduces SELF-INDEX, a framework that lets a search index automatically diagnose retrieval failures, revise its keys, and validate changes, using a query simulator to anticipate future queries. Experiments show consistent gains across corpora and downstream LLM agents.
Cloudflare adds a Disallow AI Training setting that lets sites stay indexed for search while blocking crawlers from using their content for AI model training. The feature replaces the generic Block AI Bots option with granular Search, Training, and Agent controls.
Retrieve-for-Train addresses LLM inference bottlenecks in complex AI search by using offline reinforcement learning to train a lightweight diffusion model. This enables efficient, single-pass generation of diverse, property-aligned sub-queries, bypassing slow autoregressive reasoning.
Firefox is integrating Exa.ai’s retrieval engine into its Smart Window (desktop) and Quick Answers (iOS) features, delivering source‑backed answers with visible citations and a zero‑data‑retention policy. The move underscores Mozilla’s strategy of keeping the browser open while partnering for specialized AI capabilities.
Omnigent is a unified agent definition layer that lets you write an LLM‑agent once and run it on any harness (Claude Code, Codex, raw API). By plugging Nimble’s specialized web‑search API into the Omnigent web_search builtin, you get consistent, deeper, and cheaper web results – benchmark accuracy jumps from 46 % to 71 % and search cost halves. All model calls go through Databricks Foundation Mod…
Yelp added an Inference Plugin to Nrtsearch that runs XGBoost and neural‑network models inside the search engine, eliminating a separate scoring service. The plugin extracts features from index documents, loads MLeap bundles from MLflow, and serves predictions on replica nodes with millisecond latency.
Elastic Cloud Serverless now offers General Availability of Cross‑Project Search (CPS), letting you run a single query across up to 100 linked projects (any region, cloud, or solution type) without moving data. Setup is UI‑driven, permissions are evaluated per‑project, and costs are $0.009 / GB retained plus $0.05 / GB egress. CPS works for Observability, Security, Search, vector DB, and ML jobs,…
Firefox 154 now ships with Startpage pre‑installed as a selectable default search engine for several European countries, removing the need for extensions. The integration emphasizes privacy—no query logging or AI—while keeping existing search settings untouched.
