We've observed a few things with pplx over the years: Verbatim copies of Google answer snippets in the early days. "Novel Image feature" just copies images from Google serp - still today - see screenshot. Personalization just collecting data but no difference in default answers. Long history of sketchy backlinks and inflated traffic from not blocking bots. Majority of citations just numbered links behind random sentences - often no relation between a sentence and its citation... List goes on. Good marketing, partnerships and design though.
We've observed a few things with pplx over the years: Verbatim copies of Google answer snippets in the early days. "Novel Image feature" just copies images from Google serp - still today - see screenshot. Personalization just collecting data but no difference in default answers. Long history of sketchy backlinks and inflated traffic from not blocking bots. Majority of citations just numbered links behind random sentences - often no relation between a sentence and its citation... List goes on. Good marketing, partnerships and design though.
@RichardSocher But here @perplexity_ai got the correct answer and @YouSearchEngine didn’t
@RichardSocher Some might say they are a fraud.....
You.com has been my go to these days when I need a clean neat and factbased research. Richard, research mode has been game changing, no all we need is higher context size on llm modes so that model can take larger input and remember longer conversational flow, and you will be golden
@RichardSocher "Novel Image feature" seems like a fancy term for "let me show you what Google already has", and personalization is more like" let me hoard your data for no apparent improvement".
@RichardSocher I used pplx a few times and still don’t get all the hype around it. They have done a good job with marketing though. Just something smells fishy ….
@RichardSocher they got that UX right and they caught a trend with mentions from big accounts
@RichardSocher I asked pplx a question on @ycharts & it gave me Spotify's metrics 💀
@RichardSocher With all that said, pplx CEO roasts Google like crazy...