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A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Kevin Roose used the Perplexity search engine for several weeks ...

Part of the reason Google decided to start developing its own Chrome browser—all the way back in 2008—was to funnel people toward all of its web apps, from Google Docs to Gmail to Google Maps. And of ...