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How to give a local or cloud LLM live web search, cited evidence, and a context window that doesn't overflow. Each guide is data-backed, and the DIY path is always shown alongside Grounder.
- Give a local LLM live web search (Ollama & LM Studio) The full search → fetch → rank pipeline to give Ollama or LM Studio live web search, and how to fit the results into a small context window.
- Give DeepSeek live, up-to-date answers DeepSeek is frozen at its training cutoff and invents current facts. How to feed it live web context over MCP or an API pipeline, with measured proof it works.
- Why your local LLM returns nothing on a web page Feed a scraped page to a small-context model and it returns nothing - an empty response or a truncation error, not a worse answer. The failure, measured, and the token-capped fix.
- The best web search MCP servers for local LLMs Brave, Ollama web search, Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, the no-API-key DIY servers, and Grounder - compared for a local model, and the small-context-window catch most miss.