TinySearch v0.2.0 Released: Lightweight Open Web-Search Tool for Local LLMs Now Uses SearXNG as Default Backend
TinySearch v0.2.0, the first stable beta, has been released. The tool switched from DuckDuckGo to SearXNG as the default search backend after DuckDuckGo started imposing frequent rate limits and CAPTCHAs. It is an MCP/FastAPI web-search utility that crawls, chunks, retrieves, and re-ranks content, delivering a context blob capped at 8k tokens optimized for smaller local LLMs. The update allows pointing to a self-hosted SearXNG instance for more reliable, provider-independent search. The developer reports using it successfully with qwen3.5-9B, with each call taking around 10-15 seconds.