SCRAP THAT – BE SUPER CAREFUL WHEN YOU USE PERPLEXITY – THEY WANT TO BECOME GOOGLE.
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See my former entries Entry 1 and here Entry 2.
Perplexity.ai is the first of its kind LLM-powered answer engine that has established itself as the most accurate and useful research assistant for conversations and questions that require answers to be backed by facts and references.
You should all try perplexity.ai
It looks like this:
Maybe watch how they built it:
In this presentation, Aravind Srinivas, the founder and CEO, will go through the engineering challenges involved in getting there within the time and resource constraints and the opportunities that lie ahead in rethinking the most important software category of asking questions about anything and everything.
Chrome Extension/Plugin
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/perplexity-ai-search/bnaffjbjpgiagpondjlnneblepbdchol
Update 13.11.2024
The german meta searchengine metaGER is also struggling to keep up with the innovationspeed in search engine-land. Here is a podcast depicting the current state.
Interesting Links from the Podcast:
Browser und Suchmaschine Brave https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(Browser)
Suma e.V.https://suma-ev.de/
Open Search Foundation Projekt Open Websearch EU https://openwebsearch.eu/
Blogposts
- https://suma-ev.de/eine-aera-geht-zu-ende/
- https://suma-ev.de/eine-aera-ging-zu-ende-und-eine-neue-zeit-beginnt/
The SUMA-EV taking care of metaGER is a non-profit organization based in Hannover, Germany that advocates for free access to digital knowledge and operates the MetaGer search engine. Here are some key points about SUMA-EV:
Mission and Goals
SUMA-EV aims to ensure that digital knowledge remains freely accessible without control by governments or corporations [1][2]. Their core beliefs include:
- Protecting privacy and opposing user profiling
- Promoting transparency and open-source software
- Maintaining diversity in the search engine market to prevent monopolies
History and Organization
- Founded on July 5, 2004 in Hannover[2]
- Originally named „Gemeinnütziger Verein zur Förderung der Suchmaschinen-Technologie und des freien Wissenszugangs, SuMa-eV“
- Renamed to „SUMA-EV – Verein für freien Wissenszugang“ in 2009
- Current executive board members include Dominik Hebeler, Phil Höfer, Carsten Riel, and Manuela Branz[2][4]
Key Activities
Funding
SUMA-EV is funded through:
- Membership fees
- Donations
- Affiliate shopping programs
- Advertising links[2]
The organization continues to operate on a volunteer basis and welcomes donations, new members, and token purchases to support its mission of providing free access to digital knowledge[5].
Citations:
- https://suma-ev.de
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suma_e._V.
- https://www.religionen-entdecken.de/inhalt/der-suma-ev-verein-fuer-freien-wissenszugang
- https://metager.de/impressum
- https://wiki.aki-stuttgart.de/mediawiki/index.php/SUMA-EV
- https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/suma-ev/
- https://de.linkedin.com/company/suma-ev—verein-fuer-freien-wissenszugang
Update: 18.6.2025
Auch wenn der CEO von perplexity.ai offenbar Lack gesoffen hat, die Ergebnisse sind ueberragend. Hier ein paar Beispielprompts die mich in den letzten Tagen wirklich gut unterstuetzt haben, als ich eine App ueberarbeitet habe und u.a. eine WKWebview bissel enger integriert habe in eine App.
How can I implement some code to make a WKWebView searchable for some text / string in a way that the search results are marked in the webview visually and how can I do this in Objective-C?
How do I craft an iOS UIAlertController to ask for String input from the Keyboard in a way, that I can enter a string in an input field labeled with „Search for string:“ using Objective-C
How can I present a toolbar in a UINavigationController showing a custom UIViewController, which is wrapped to be part of a TabbarViewController in objective-c under iOS?
How can I resolve the iOS issue that a UIToolbar of a UINavigationController which is wrapped in a UITabbarController does show behind the UITabbar when not hidden using Objective-C?
How can I style the text of an iOS UIAlertAction title using Objective-C?
What are common causes for the iOS WKWebview to crash while making use of the method „evaluateJavaScript“ and how do you mitigate this in Objective-C?
How do I handle an iOS WKWebview didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge: call which requests „NSURLAuthenticationMethodServerTrust“ using Objective-C?
How do I use the integrated iOS SF Symbols font to integrate the icons it provides into normal text elements of the UI, e.g. a UIButton title using Objective-C?
How would a catching AppStore description text look like for an iOS app which at it’s core provides the feature of subscribing to exactly one RSS-feed and presenting the contents of this feed in a monochromatic, terminal-style and nerdy way to the user, while providing seamless in-app webcontent presentation and keeping a history of read posts and an archive of favourite posts?
Alle diese Fragen wurden hilfreich beantwortet. Ich musste nicht durch tonnenweise Links klicken auf der Suche nach der einen Antwort. Nein, ich habe konzise und brauchbare Hinweise erhalten. Perplexity ist keine Suchmaschine, es ist eine Findemaschine. Sehr hilfreich! Die letzte Frage hat mir tatsaechlich richtig viel Arbeit erspart und zugleich ein Ergebnis erbracht, dass ich selbst deutlich schlechter geloest haette.
Why do I blog this? I am blown away by how much better search results are compared to Google and Qwant.