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Announcing a major update to Perplexity Ask: the world’s first conversational search engine! Now, you can read answers with up-to-date sources and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. In other words, you can chat with your search engine! Try it out at
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For each follow-up question, Ask seamlessly converts your question into a new search query. No need to rephrase your question or think of keywords - simply ask a new question. Example thread about NBA GOATs:

Curious about a specific aspect of an answer? Keep searching to dive deeper. Example: start from @elonmusk’s weight loss and learn about intermittent fasting and keto diets:

Learn about new concepts and quickly get up to speed on the latest and greatest in them. Example: go from understanding nuclear fusion to researching its recent breakthroughs:

There’s a lot of discussion around the right interface to search in the age of LLMs: whether it’s a single Google-style search box or a new experience. We’re working towards a conversational answer engine: i.e. ChatGPT + latest references pulled from a search engine.

We are constantly working to make Ask more accurate and powerful. Join us at Discord to give us feedback or learn more about us: Thanks for the feedback and support so far!

I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but has been facilitating follow up questions, pulling in legacy search results, citing sources, and doing all of it in a truly conversational interface—for months already 😁

@DannyRichman It’s broken slightly. I don’t see any of my emails as references. Pls fix thx

I like your choice of sample prompt 😂

Took a couple follow-ups to get the right answer to the GOAT debate

This is such a great tool! It lacks only to be translated to other languages in order to get perfect.


