So, while the search giant gets its game together, I’m moving to Perplexity.
Why Do We Use Search Engines?
You have a question.
The internet has a lot of answers.
The search engine is the bridge that connects your question to relevant answers.
The keyword here isrelevant.
Which, if done quickly, is all the better.
You had to manually check those answers till you found something that solved your problem.
The only thing is,Perplexity does this a lot better!
It is also referencing 10+ different sources to generate these results.
But hold on, it gets even better.
This is a game-changer for online research.
By the way, for context, Google SGE can’t even process this prompt.
Perplexity is not reading through every single article end-to-end to generate the answers.
Why Did I Switch To Perplexity?
Perplexity offers a lot of useful features that fit my writer/marketer workflow.
Perplexity will regenerate the answer with the updated list of sources.
This is similar to Google’s People Also Ask feature.
Use this to do an image search or video search similar to how you do on Google.
A Generate Image option is also available, which will create an AI-generated image based on the search query.
However, this feature is only available to paid users.
Free users are limited to only 5 Pro Searches every 4 hours.
Perplexity isn’t that fast.
It takes a moment to fetch the sources and, from there, generate the response.
However, it’s fast enough.
I usually get the source list within 12 seconds.
It usually takes a similar amount of time as other AI tools like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot.
When Is Google Search Better?
So, navigational and transactional queries are technically instances where I still prefer Google over Perplexity.
