The online models to a decent job of proving up-to-date info. Simple inputs like "who won the football game last night" provided the correct score and a little detail on the NFL's Monday Night game. Did well with some other queries that require current info.

Their blog [1] states they use their own index: "In-house search technology: our in-house search, indexing, and crawling infrastructure allows us to augment LLMs with the most relevant, up to date, and valuable information. Our search index is large, updated on a regular cadence, and uses sophisticated ranking algorithms to ensure high quality, non-SEOed sites are prioritized. Website excerpts, which we call “snippets”, are provided to our pplx-online models to enable responses with the most up-to-date information."

Anyone know what their bot name is or any insight into their indexing? Impressive that they are not relying on Bing/Google/Brave/?.

1. https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/introducing-pplx-online-llms