Perplexity Comet

https://comet.perplexity.ai/?a=b

by birriel • 1 year ago

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bachittle• 1 year ago

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.

Spartan-S63• 1 year ago

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!

samrus2• 1 year ago

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

xnx4• 1 year ago

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

sea-gold3• 1 year ago

Have you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based.

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

aitacobell4• 1 year ago

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

poisonborz• 1 year ago

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.

aitacobell4• 1 year ago

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

xnx4• 1 year ago

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.

aitacobell4• 1 year ago

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

_boffin_• 1 year ago

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

pram• 1 year ago

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

dustyharddrive2• 1 year ago

Arc has been abandoned.

lofaszvanitt3• 1 year ago

Nobody seen that coming

aitacobell4• 1 year ago

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

pjm3313• 1 year ago

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

reaperducer• 1 year ago

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!

samrus2• 1 year ago

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

xnx4• 1 year ago

The later

kveykva• 1 year ago

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.

qntmfred• 1 year ago

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

hexomancer• 1 year ago

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.

wy35• 1 year ago

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

xnx4• 1 year ago

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.

woadwarrior012• 1 year ago

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.

kurtoid• 1 year ago

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

lousken• 1 year ago

is that the spyware browser?

pelagicAustral• 1 year ago

Is there a non-spyware browser? holy shit!

fsflover• 1 year ago

IceCat.

mmh0000• 1 year ago

Firefox + arkenfox (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js)

Ungoogled Chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/download/)

rylan-talerico• 1 year ago

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

Launch site feels busy, though.

Alifatisk4• 1 year ago

As far as I know, Dia have a waiting list atm?

woadwarrior012• 1 year ago

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

seatac76• 1 year ago

OpenAI Reaponse: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-releas...

sea-gold3• 1 year ago

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

Alifatisk4• 1 year ago

Isn't Perplexitys Comet also built ontop of Chromium?

lofaszvanitt3• 1 year ago

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

sea-gold3• 1 year ago

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

[1] https://ladybird.org

lofaszvanitt3• 1 year ago

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

ageitgey• 1 year ago

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.

daft_pink• 1 year ago

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

pjm3313• 1 year ago

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

andrewinardeer• 1 year ago

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

pjm3313• 1 year ago

correct unless you are on the perplexity max plan

pona-a• 1 year ago

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.

Alifatisk4• 1 year ago

This page was better https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted

bicepjai2• 1 year ago

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”

senectus1• 1 year ago

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.

patrickscoleman• 1 year ago

You should check out kagi then

http://kagi.com/

snorrah• 1 year ago

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

brador• 1 year ago

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

What are we doing here?

Automated trekking bag purchasing.

Alifatisk4• 1 year ago

This https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted should be the home page, the current homepage should be somewhere else, you want to quickly introduce the app / service and answer the visitors first question, "what is this?"

Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth

Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not

alwillis• 1 year ago

I've been using Dia for about a month. Dia is made by The Browser Company of New York, best known for the Arc browser [1].

Dia is a fabulous piece of work--it's much more than Chrome + a chatbot.

You can tell they thought deeply what would it mean for AI to be integrated into a browser, not just tacked on.

It's still in beta, but even at this stage, it's quite polished.

The custom skills are a killer feature. You'll wonder why every browser doesn't have it [2][3].

[1] https://www.diabrowser.com

[2] https://www.caneraras.com/learn/browser-skills-gallery

[3]: "Dia Browser Review in 120 seconds: The AI-First Browser Reimagining Web Interaction" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijHiDCU4zc

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