Perplexity

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8 of 10 AI Search Tools Cited a Fake Concept in a Week, Just Not From a Blog

Fudan University researchers planted posts about a made-up "Cactus Gravity Protocol" on sites like Medium and YouTube, and 8 of 10 AI search tools, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok and Google AI, cited it within a week. The more useful finding is about placement: 40 posts on a self-hosted

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Getting Cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity Is Three Different Jobs

ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity pull answers from three separate indexes, and a Profound analysis of 680 million citations found that only 11% of the domains ChatGPT cites also show up in Perplexity. Getting cited by all three is three different jobs with three different checklists. The fastest win

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20 Publishers Backed Amazon's Perplexity Case Because They Can't Sue Alone

Digital Content Next filed an amicus brief on April 29, 2026 asking the Ninth Circuit to uphold an injunction that blocks Perplexity's Comet browser from accessing Amazon's logged-in pages while spoofing Chrome. The brief carries 20-plus publishers covering 259 million unique visitors. It is the closest

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The AI Ad Market Split Three Ways and Nobody Agrees What a Conversion Is

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial There is a version of this article that treats "AI chatbot advertising" as one coherent thing. That version would be useless. Three months into the chatbot ad era, the three platforms that matter have picked three entirely different business models, and the gap

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Gemini vs Perplexity Traffic: Raw Clicks vs. Real Value

Gemini Flipped the Traffic Scoreboard in Four Months In August 2025, Perplexity was sending roughly three times more referral traffic to websites than Google Gemini. By January 2026, Gemini had overtaken it, sending 29% more visitors globally and 41% more in the United States. That reversal happened in about four