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The self hosted search tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of running your own search tooling, especially as a way to give local AI assistants access to current information. A tagged thread covering a Lemonade and Crush terminal test found that a local assistant's biggest weakness was missing recent details about software releases and commands rather than fabricating answers, and that adding self-hosted web search only partly closed the gap. Search access, model execution and tool integration each introduced their own failures, so the practical takeaway is that freshness has to be verified across the entire answering pipeline, not just at the point where a search tool is installed.
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    Lemonade and Crush Test Exposes Local AI Freshness Limits

    A local AI assistant tested with Lemonade and the Crush terminal interface struggled more with missing recent information than with inventing answers, according to an XDA Developers report published September 22, exposing a practical limitation for administrators asking about current software...