Yes, you can tell the AI to Google for more context.
Before you can Google, make sure that your have followed the Enabling Web Search guide when you set up your Open WebUI instance. When you’ve done it, here’s how your text input field will look like:
We can search the web now!
Make sure you have clicked on the Web Search button, now let’s start our chat. I’m going to ask it this question:
What is the meaning of 42?
Now hit Enter and the AI will do its thing.
Geeky answer!
If you click on the Searched 15 sites area, Open WebUI will reference back to you the sites it used to search for the answer.
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