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 · 1d 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.
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 · 1d 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!
anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space
andrewinardeer · 1d ago
Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?
pjm331 · 1d ago
correct unless you are on the perplexity max plan
pona-a · 1d 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.
Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.
poisonborz · 1d 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.
Alifatisk · 20h 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
xnx · 1d 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.
woadwarrior01 · 1d 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.
snorrah · 1d ago
What a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?
Holds up a mirror to the uselessness of modern human existence.
What are we doing here?
Automated trekking bag purchasing.
pjm331 · 1d 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 · 1d 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!
kveykva · 1d 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.
hexomancer · 1d 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 · 1d ago
Scroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.
qntmfred · 1d ago
and it's playing sound effects on button mouseovers? boooo.
sea-gold · 1d ago
I'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit.
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
I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.
http://kagi.com/
[1] https://kagi.com/orion/
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.
Launch site feels busy, though.
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
Ungoogled Chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/download/)
What are we doing here?
Automated trekking bag purchasing.
> 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
Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity.
Finally, some truth in marketing!
[1] https://ladybird.org
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you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit
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.