[mgreg]

The online models to a decent job of proving up-to-date info. Simple inputs like "who won the football game last night" provided the correct score and a little detail on the NFL's Monday Night game. Did well with some other queries that require current info.

Their blog [1] states they use their own index: "In-house search technology: our in-house search, indexing, and crawling infrastructure allows us to augment LLMs with the most relevant, up to date, and valuable information. Our search index is large, updated on a regular cadence, and uses sophisticated ranking algorithms to ensure high quality, non-SEOed sites are prioritized. Website excerpts, which we call “snippets”, are provided to our pplx-online models to enable responses with the most up-to-date information."

Anyone know what their bot name is or any insight into their indexing? Impressive that they are not relying on Bing/Google/Brave/?.

1. https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/introducing-pplx-online-llms

[klabb3]

> Simple inputs like "who won the football game last night" provided the correct score and a little detail on the NFL's Monday Night game.

That definitions of “last night” and “football” are time-zone, language and location-dependent, so I don’t know if I’d call that simple. I’d turn this around and suggest en_US bias is a serious usability issue with chat bots. Even with ChatGPT (which is generally great in terms of multi-lingual experience) I have to ask for recipes in metric units even though I’ve already stated in the same conversation that I’m in a European country.

[ec109685]

They go into a bit more detail on how they built their product here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQPOrRhRws

[pfd1986]

Thanks for the context. I've just tried this and other news on Bard (e.g. stock price for Google) and it works as well, which I wasn't aware of.