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Re:Building a Local Perplexity Alternative with Perplexica, ... by flybird on Thursday August 01, 2024 @02:55AM (#41126755)
You are totally right. We kind of simplified the Perplexity workflow in the post for easier understanding. We will definitely be mindful about the accuracy in our future posts.
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Re:Building a Local Perplexity Alternative with Perplexica, ... by akrymski on Thursday August 01, 2024 @08:22AM (#41128410)
Google and Bing have been crawling the web for decades. Perplexity crawler is just for marketing purposes, there's no way they even have 1% of Google's index. So yeah, in reality they just query Bing API.
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