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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. Prod

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.

llm_trw 2y ago
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.
- Havoc 2y ago
  Huh? I haven’t seen any limits yet regardless of model choice
  - llm_trw 2y ago
    You hit them after dozens of uses on the big models and hundreds on the small ones.
freefaler 2y ago
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).
- drexlspivey 2y ago
  > 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.
  - jigneshdarji91 2y ago
    Yes [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898
machiaweliczny 2y ago
The elephant in the room is monetization for people writing this content that perplexity (and then other search engines) will show.
- jigneshdarji91 2y ago
  And I believe for this reason necessarily SearchGPT might come out on top, at least for higher quality content from partnerships.

llm_trw 2y ago

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.

Havoc 2y ago
Huh? I haven’t seen any limits yet regardless of model choice
- llm_trw 2y ago
  You hit them after dozens of uses on the big models and hundreds on the small ones.

freefaler 2y ago

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).

drexlspivey 2y ago
> 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.
- jigneshdarji91 2y ago
  Yes [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898

machiaweliczny 2y ago

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

jigneshdarji91 2y ago
And I believe for this reason necessarily SearchGPT might come out on top, at least for higher quality content from partnerships.