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I’ve been playing around with Perplexity and see potential. While I rarely use Google any longer, the times I do yield pages and pages of sponsored search results. It’s only a matter of time before someone unseats the champ.

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Yep the ads are out of control in the Google SERPs.

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I've been a user for a while. Perplexity has utility but not when used as a search engine. It is good for quickly getting answers to straightforward, questions. (You use "Facebook login" as an example. I would argue that shouldn't ever be searched for anyway, that's the job of a browser: just type facebook.com into the address bar, then click on login).

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Navigational queries account for about 20% of searches. It's something that any search engine needs to be able to handle.

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Of course. No argument there. The example you used does prove your point. My point was it's staggering that so many people would rather search for "Facebook" than just enter the URL.

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