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Perplexity Comet (perplexity.ai)
37 points by birriel 13 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 48 comments





I have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”

yeah I explicitly do not want my searches "tailored" to me. I want factual results that I can explore and pick holes in.

I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.


You should check out kagi then

http://kagi.com/


AI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.

I want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!

Have you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based.

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/


I thought the battery-life meme was a myth? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413

anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space

Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?

correct unless you are on the perplexity max plan

Is there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?

this is a much better page about it imo https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted

Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.

Don't expect these companies to be interested in the actual browser / DOM rendering technologies and the betterment of standards. They'll be run of the mill Chromium forks.

Excited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia.

Launch site feels busy, though.


This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.


A "new" browser in the '20s is the equivalent of a browser toolbar in the '00s. It's not a product, it's a feature.

IMO, we're back to the late 90s when every kid (I was one of them) would slap the IE ActiveX control onto a VB6 form and call it a browser.

Holds up a mirror to the uselessness of modern human existence.

What are we doing here?

Automated trekking bag purchasing.


What a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?

is that the spyware browser?

Is there a non-spyware browser? holy shit!


IceCat.

a landing page about a new browser and then...

> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.

a bunch of facts about planets?

i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me


i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity.

Finally, some truth in marketing!


The scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.

Yeah, I can’t believe this is a serious website made by a multi million dollar company. It looks like something I would have designed when I was 10.

Scroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.

and it's playing sound effects on button mouseovers? boooo.

I'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit.

[1] https://ladybird.org


It's a nice idea, but it is still pretty far from even a public v0.1. I think they can get there, but it will be at least a few years.

It's time to wreak havoc on the back orifice of existing solutions.


> OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.

oh, it will be groundbreaking.... eeeeeeee nooooo.

Solve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius

Scrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?

is this a real innovation in the browser UX, or just a ploy to vacuum up as much data as possible?

you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit


Comet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google

What do you think this browser will be built on-top of?

> light a fire under Google

Do you feel Chrome has been under-delivering?

I see frequent and visible feature changes. I do wish Project Mariner wasn't limited to their Ultra tier.


Yeah I do, but more for its bloat and the erosion of search quality.

Arc has been abandoned.

Interesting, it has? The hype has died out but I see it in the wild


Nobody seen that coming

Yeah the problem with Chrome is it doesn't have enough AI shit crammed into it.



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