> Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system; 300bps was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state of the art word processor; and we liked it! Steven is an advisor to Cathey Communications, a PR company which represents CIQ, a FOSS company that work on behalf of Rocky Linux

> Opinion: Perplexity offers several advantages over Google as a search engine, making it a compelling alternative for many. // Back in the 1970s, when this columnist was a happy teenage graduate student, I started my first business: Researchers at Large. I was one of the first people to make a living by being able to get answers from early search tools such as OCLC, NASA/Recon, and Dialog. Later, I used the early internet search services like Gopher, Archie, and WAIS. Then, I became one of the first users of search engines including AltaVista, WebCrawler, and Lycos. When Google came along in 1998 to topple all the other services, I'd used search services for decades. // What all this means is I know how to search about as well as anyone on the planet. This is why I must tell you that Google is losing its spot as the top search engine

> Is this

Maybe it's just an educated opinion - like the capital red letters literally say, an "I may be wrong but".

Certainly seems like it. I hope the mods remove it