“I'm not saying Perplexity is a Ferrari, but he seems unfamiliar with the tool he's using and is comparing it to a similar AI system. Maybe I'm mistaken; I don't know who he is.”
“This is the difference between using Perplexity Search and Perplexity Computer. It’s common for people to not realize they are using the Computer part of the app which uses credit you pay for outside the subscription.”
“perplexity is different though, they seem to scrape everything and youtube transcripts just happen to be dense with step-by-step instructions. the "answer-shaped content" thing you said makes sense, a video tutorial is basically someone talking through a problem for 10 minutes, that's way more signal than a random blog post trying to rank for keywords”