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I think you need some Agent software. Or a MCP server for your existing software. It depends a bit on what you're doing, whether that's just chatting and asking questions that need to be googled. Or vibe coding... Or query the documents on your computer. As I said there's OpenClaw which can do pretty much everything including wreck your computer. I'm also aware of OpenCode, AutoGPT, Aider, Tabby, CrewAI, ...
The Ollama projects has some software linked on their page: https://github.com/ollama/ollama?tab=readme-ov-file#chat-interfaces
They're sorted by use-case. And whether they're desktop software or a webinterface. Maybe that's a good starting point.
What you'd usually do is install it and connect it to your model / inference software via that software's OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. But it frequently ends up being a chore. If you use some paid service (ChatGPT), they'll contract with Google to do the search for you, Youtube, etc. And once you do it yourself, you're gonna need all sorts of developer accounts and API tokens, to automatically access Google's search API... You might get blocked from YouTube if you host your software on a VPS in a datacenter... That's kinda how the internet is these days. All the big companies like Google and their competitors require access tokens or there won't be any search results. At least that was my experience.