I have used Perplexity (and AI search company) a lot and - well I don't think you understand. This is not about it being too difficult to find the information.

I have used Perplexity (and AI search company) a lot and - well I don't think you understand. This is not about it being too difficult to find the information. Its that a search in Google will give you a list of places to go that are relevant to your query. AI search will give you the information you want. This becomes even better if the information you want is in multiple different places. The canonical question for that used to be "what was the phase of the moon when John Lennon was shot?". There didn't used to be an answer to this in Google - but the AI search was able to break it down, find the date John Lennon was shot (easily available on Google), find the moon phase on that day (again, easily available on Google) and put them together to produce the new answer. For a more tech relevant example, "what is the smallest AWS EC2 I can run a Tomcat server in? You 100% can get this information yourself. It just much more time than having an AI do it.