Perplexity AI’s quiet coup

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This column from Ira Bryck is part of a new series entitled “Ask Perplexity AI”. The columns will pose a question to Perplexity AI along with a collection of data and will explore the analysis that AI returns. Bryck understands that Artificial Intelligence is not Actual Intelligence, but it’s better than Real Stupid; and like life, it’s

Perplexity AI’s quiet coup

“Just Google it.” That’s how most people found information they were interested in for more than a quarter-century.  All that is changing now. Today, the main reason fewer people are “Googling it” is that users are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Jasper, Chatsonic, HuggingChat, Socratic, Grok, DeepSeek, IBM watsonx Assistant, Pi, and Character AI.  Or even more powerfully, they’re using tools that integrate old-fashioned search resu…