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Amid on-going controversy about treatment of media article and original reporting , AI - power search startup Perplexity now expose results for factual queries such as weather condition and time at a place , currency conversion , and solvent to simple math queries at once through cards . This is a move to stop Perplexity user from going to other lookup engine like Google for such upshot .
To be clear , Perplexity could already convey this datum from the web and display results in a descriptive way , but the troupe is adding some visual dash to these results to make them more big and ready . On X , CEO Aravind Srinivas pronounce that these basic queries now should run fast on the search locomotive .
There ’s some coolheaded gradient and parallax effects here by our design and mobile teams.https://t.co/MIIrjW8Dz6pic.twitter.com/n4O36SRA0P
Notably , Srinivas said last yr that Google treat basic query like atmospheric condition , time and live sports score well , and his fellowship had a lot of employment to do . While Google expose a lot of card - based information , including sports tournament table and canonical movie data , Perplexity also moves in the direction of display verbatim results or else of fetching from other sources .
google is still better than perplexity for weather , time , resilient fun scores and guidance . So we have a long manner to go .
For these new search solution , such as weather information and up-to-dateness conversions , Perplexity does n’t link to any rootage . Last month , Srinivas refer that the search inauguration was work with a company calledTako , an AI hunt engine for visualizing information , to display information such as strain price .
An answer locomotive engine should be capable to answer basic facts about anything : but also not just get back to you with long summary . High tightness unit of information are essential . We have been act together with common people at@TakoVizon last further with knowledge cards and…pic.twitter.com/LRCpSnhhLs
Perplexityfaced criticismfrom the medium earlier this calendar month , when Forbes executive editor in chief John Paczkowski point outthat the search engine showedForbes ’ original , paywalled reportingabout ex - Google CEO Eric Schmidt ’s drone party in hunt results without proper attribution and with near identical writing language in Perplexity’srecently launch Pages feature . Forbes said that its reporting was also mentioned conspicuously in Perplexity ’s AI - generated podcast .
The argument fromvariouscriticsis that without right credits and getting enough data link - back traffic in return , AI - powered hunt railway locomotive generate ( or re - generating ) media capacity will eat up up publications ’ business .
Last week , the Amazon - backed startup ’s chief business officer , Dmitry Shevelenko , tell Semafor that thecompany was already explore revenue - share-out dealswith publications . He say that these deal would let the publishing company to earn recurring income .
