Secret Behind Perplexity AI Success Over Google

Author(s): Sai Viswanth

Originally published on Towards AI.

World’s leading Conversation AI engine to beat Google’s Search Engine

Just short after Chat GPT 3 success, Perplexity AI's popularity was on the rise. People were going toe-toe to find which one of these AI engines performs well.

But the real question is what kind of service Perplexity AI is providing to make users’ lives easier

From the words of Aravind Srinivas (CEO of Perplexity AI), perplexity AI is a conversation AI engine that takes in a prompt a question and generates a condensed answer, cutting out noise from the resources in the internet.

Perplexity AI User Interface

When you search for an answer in perplexity AI, within seconds it generates factual information by scanning millions of resources and billions of words while prioritizing which sources to focus on and giving citations for our reference.

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Over the years, Google has been the maestro in the Search Engine space. The other search engines like Firefox, Bing Safari and many others weren’t even close to Google in maintaining active users.

If you have noticed, Google hasn’t changed its search UI for many years, you know why? Because Google knew the areas to improve upon to retain users. One of them is to provide related blue links for a query by ranking them by their… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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