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Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No tf it isn’t.

Most people don’t even know what perplexity is.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

well whether popular doesn't neceserally mean ungood. though I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to search engines as the amount they have to build up information wise to potentially be good is pretty extreme, it's unlikely that someone could accomplish it without actually being known

edit: oh shit, it's just AI crap.. nevermind any of my potential it's not impossible that a hidden gem would be feasilble it's AI crap. No nobody needs a search engine to bring up something that you can't verify if it's credible information or just random guesses made by what's popular on the internet... completely worthless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Perplexity cites its sources though, so you can just read those when you suspect it's halloucinating.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

halloucinating

you're hallucinating extra letters

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

kagi is actually a pretty good, quite unknown search engine. I strongly prefer it to google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It has some pretty unsavory behind the scenes stuff going on though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

wut? never heard of that, but I guess I never looked really. Unsavory how?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mostly with the CEO lying, AI, and privacy concerns. https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

why cant we ever just have something good.

oh well, ill be keeping my eyes open for alternatives, this is bad but still better than google I guess.