[bfeynman]

same, so much so that I almost think they have a bot army for astroturfing, because I cannot believe anyone gets value from it over just one of the main providers and google. They dont index data nearly as much or as often as google, they basically are at a pareto frontier of just serving the most amount of people with lean indexing based on fact that people look up a lot of the same things. It reminds me of looking at google earth where you can see cities have 3d models but a random neighborhood where you grew up would be images years old. So yeah, its useful but definitely not a replacement for google, so idk why anyone would pay for it.

[_DeadFred_]

Society is screwed once AI companies reach the 'using our product as our personal bot army' phase.

[QuantumGood]

So in your opinion, incidentally in this thread about Kagi, you think Google is better? You imply Perplexity only uses their own index, but they pull results from multiple external search engines and their own index. As I mentioned in another thread, that kind of easy-to-verify-as-misinformation is not that common on HN. And Perplexity Pro is different than vanilla Perplexity.