Comment by pietz
17 hours ago
The irony of this article being fully AI generated...
Anyway, it's over for Perplexity. They never had a great a product and the only reason for using them, was when they offered Pro accounts for free. Many people joined. Me included. But with a "meh" product and the general AI business not being very sticky, they lost quite harshly.
I thought they might be able to make money as a search api/index, but this article closed the book.
They were way above their main competition at the time Google decided to ignore the entire open web but they were still focused on searching it.
Since then, they decided to change focus into answering questions, and didn't maintain the quality of search results.