Comment by Scene_Cast2
5 hours ago
I'm surprised that Perplexity isn't mentioned in the article or on HN. It has replaced Google for all but the most trivial queries. It runs circles around Google for finding anything niche or underspecified.
I use it through OpenRouter - I love how the pricing is per search and isn't a subscription.
I use Perplexity heavily as my general research clerk, and it's great at that, but I find trivial queries still make up a majority of my search activity. Waiting for an AI response to each of them would be an enormous time sink.
Do you gave an example query? I am curious.
Perplexity.ai
It's an AI like Google's "AI mode", in that it also surfaces URLs. I have not found it to be a good search engine replacement.