When online search engines first appeared, they seemed miraculous. Now, though? It is a truth near-universally acknowledged that search is in the dumps, corroded by spam and ads.
Big players like Google are insistent that AI is the savior of search, despite many early attempts to integrate AI ending in disaster. There’s a wave of services offering AI-powered answers, including Perplexity and OpenAI’s SearchGPT. Recently, I got an email promoting another new AI search engine—but this one has a notably quirky approach to answering questions. Called Pearl, it’s coming out of beta
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