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I've been using Perplexity for the past 3 months on a regular basis and it has replaced DDG for most use cases. It's really nice to have answers directly.

Product comparison/updates/features:

> What's the difference in speedo latex cap vs elastomeric?

> What's new in iOS 18 Beta 4?

Documentation (esp for non-mainstream tools):

> How do i find the sioyek db files? How do I move it to my local iCloud folder instead?

I'd assume SearchGPT's results might be better given the partnerships with publishers and creators vs Perplexity searching the internet. More importantly, Perplexity already did the work of finding Product-Market Fit for OpenAI.

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Perplexity is great, but they might have their rug pulled underneath them.

They use google and other search providers to run the query over the results and may be they still can find a good provider. However it's either Google or Bing and they both have their own competing products.

However, openAI might not execute this better and then Perplexity might have a chance... (I hope so).

> They use google and other search providers to run the query over the results and may be they still can find a good provider.

No they don’t? AFAIK they have their own crawler and semantic search index.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898

My beef with perplexity is that there is no way to increase the number of uses of large models.

People keep telling me that I can use the smaller models, but I really can't. I'm using this for work and those things are toys which just game bench marks.

I'd love to give them an api key from openai or anthropic and get uses to my hearts content like phind does.

Huh? I haven’t seen any limits yet regardless of model choice

You hit them after dozens of uses on the big models and hundreds on the small ones.

The elephant in the room is monetization for people writing this content that perplexity (and then other search engines) will show.

And I believe for this reason necessarily SearchGPT might come out on top, at least for higher quality content from partnerships.

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