Open it when you need a source. It is here to stop a fake article, not to finish one.
Perplexity has a narrow job: ask whether a claim has a public source before I write. Renames, effective dates, a post that may be gone — a fluent chat model will give you a complete wrong paragraph. Default links force me to check title and date. The abstract often drops the qualifier, so I never paste the abstract into outbound copy. Unlike Gemini I use it on the open web, not my own sheets. Unlike ChatGPT I do not ask it for long essays; those read like stitched results. Collect bullets here, write elsewhere. The free tier is enough for checks; paid helps source filtering, not prose. I pair it with the Prompt Generator: lock the facts, then write in another model. Using it as an “AI writer” alone buys the wrong skill.
People who verify facts, competitor claims, and dates before drafting. Not a place to publish a long essay.
Links by default
You get a clickable start, which beats “reportedly.”
Catches fake dates
Ship dates and sunsets get a collision check before they enter the draft.
Fast comparison
Several sources on one question show who is copying whom.
Splits research from prose
Verify, then change windows. Cleaner than one model doing both badly.
Abstracts drop hedges
“In some regions” and “in beta” vanish. Open the page.
Long pieces feel assembled
Forced essays become source kebabs without your judgment.
Links are not authority
You still discard reprints and wire copy.
Ask how the official page phrases it; diff against your draft.
Ask current docs, not last year’s review.
Request paper pages or official blogs — not a full lecture written here.
No. They are leads. You judge the domain and the date.
Not as the only library. Cite from your field’s databases.
A few checks a day, yes. Heavy research hits the cap.
ChatGPT writes. Perplexity verifies. Do not reverse that.
Count how many source checks you do a week. Do not buy it for style.
The link opens the Perplexity site so you can check our judgment. The review is written by AI WebLink.