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Perplexity (answer engine)
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Cited answers instead of links — search rebuilt around models.
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Perplexity answers with citations, follows up conversationally, and via the Comet browser acts on the web for you. It is the most direct challenge to the search-ads model that funds much of the internet — and to Google, which answered with AI Mode.
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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.