How Perplexity AI Is Quietly Rewriting Search Economics

— By Marcus Ward

How Perplexity AI Is Quietly Rewriting Search Economics

Perplexity's answer engine model — synthesizing information rather than indexing links — represents a structural attack on Google's business model that is more sophisticated than previous search challengers. The economics of AI-native search are fundamentally different from the economics that made Google invincible.

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