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		cjonas 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers t... Doesn't perplexity crawl to harvest and index data like a traditional search engine? Or is it all "on demand"?

lukeschlather 19 days ago [–]

For the most part I would assume they pay for access to Google or Bing's index. I also assume they don't really train models. So all their "crawling" is on behalf of users.

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