How do AI search engines, like Perplexity, compare to traditional search engines?
David Quaid
October 5, 2025
In short, they are the same. AI or LLM tools like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Perplexity (which is just a wrapper of an LLM tool) aren’t actual search engines – they are just answer systems that synthesize results given to them via traditional search engines like Google. This has been