Eclipse ships open-source Perplexity-style search

This is most compelling as a self-hosted search product, not just another Perplexity clone. The real moat will be retrieval quality and trustworthiness across languages, because the UI already looks productized.

• –SearXNG + Ollama keeps the stack local-first and privacy-friendly, which is the sharpest differentiator.
• –Multilingual UI, citations, voice search, and search history make it feel like a real app, not a demo wrapper.
• –AGPL-3.0 is contributor-friendly, but it can make commercial reuse harder.
• –The Eclipse name is crowded by the long-lived IDE ecosystem, so branding and searchability may be awkward.
• –If answer quality keeps improving, this could become a strong reference implementation for open-source AI search.