It’s no secret that Google Search is in a weird place right now. The regular search experience has seen better days, with ads and unhelpful results making the search engine feel far less helpful than ...

We take you through what exactly Perplexity is, how it works, what sets it apart from ChatGPT and other gen AI tools -- and about some of the legal battles it's facing. Barbara is a tech writer ...

The New York Times says Perplexity lifted its copyrighted stories for its AI search tool, in a new lawsuit. Other media companies, including Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones, have also sued ...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler ...

Perplexity has long been accused of deliberately bypassing anti-scraping measures to retrieve web content. While the company has historically dismissed these accusations as disingenuous or ...

Google’s antitrust remedy trial started this week, and the Department of Justice has produced several witnesses to testify about how Google’s stranglehold on search has slowed their innovation. On day ...

In February, days before the Super Bowl, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI search startup Perplexity, gave users a sparkly incentive to install its app. He posted on X that instead of buying a Super Bowl ad ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society. Perplexity AI launched "Comet Plus," a $5/month subscription, ...

The most underrated feature in Perplexity is the Tasks tool, which lets you automate routine actions like daily news briefs, stock alerts, email summaries, or movie suggestions. It runs even when ...

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than ...

While OpenAI has cemented its lead in the U.S., Perplexity is taking a different route — quietly expanding into India to compete in the next phase of AI adoption. The search-focused AI startup is ...