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That's a surprisingly strong endorsement of Perplexity that may make me take another (third or fourth) look at them.

Funnily enough, Perplexity was my first ever experience with AI-powered search, well before Microsoft pulled GPT-4 into Bing Chat. I even shared it with some friends as "a glimpse into the future of search." Then I kind of navigated over to GPT-4-powered Bing for a while. Then some article (or video) encouraged me to install the Perplexity extension, which brings up Perplexity on any page you're browsing and allows you to chat with it. I didn't quite get to incorporate it into my routine and eventually uninstalled it.

Since I also mention Perplexity's new offerings (like "online LLMS") in my articles, I regularly go to Perplexity Labs to test out the available models. But at no point did Perplexity become my go-to tool.

In your opinion, what exactly makes Perplexity outshine Google and Bard (which also attempt to browse the web for their answers and provide sources for them)? Is it the interface/ease of use? Is it the quality of sources? Is it fewer hallucinations?

I'm very tempted to give Perplexity another go after reading this!

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