Posted 2/24/2024, 2:37:03 PM
Perplexity Launches AI-Powered Search Engine to Rival Google with Focus on Fresh Results and Answering Questions
- Perplexity.ai initially built a Text-to-SQL tool but pivoted to building an AI-powered search engine after seeing demand for ChatGPT's question-answering abilities
- Perplexity combines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a web crawler to index information and generate answers, bypassing traditional search ranking
- Perplexity focuses on up-to-date information like news by frequently re-crawling certain domains
- Large language models allow Perplexity to efficiently parse text to find relevant information and generate convincing answers
- Perplexity believes it can compete with Google by focusing on search result quality over advertisements and optimization constraints