“everyone does this”

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-search-startup-perplexity-is-challenging-google-while-using-its-data

janitor for /zk and some more stuff here linktr.ee/randomishwalk

https://legacy.donotresearch.net/posts/visualizing-hyperstructures 

- Perplexity AI is a startup that has created an AI-powered search engine that provides conversational answers rather than just a list of web links like Google.

- The startup has gained attention and praise from tech CEOs like Jensen Huang (Nvidia) and Michael Dell, raising over $100 million in venture funding from Nvidia and others.

- Perplexity's CEO has criticized Google, calling it "legacy and old" while portraying Perplexity as the "next generation and future" of search.

So in essence, Perplexity is positioning itself as a disruptive AI search competitor to Google, backed by major tech figures, while ironically relying on Google's data and rankings to power its own search engine. [1]

source: perplexity, claude-3-opus 🤓

- However, the article reveals that despite Srinivas' criticism of Google, Perplexity actually uses Google's website rankings as the basis for its own search results.