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Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity has launched a new feature that makes their results more sticky, allowing users to turn research into an easily shareable page.
Pages build on the existing AI-powered search functionality in Perplexity, which uses a similar system to Google to catalog websites but combines it with AI for analysis and display.
As a journalist paid to create content pages on my specialist topics, this was a worrying new concept. Still, every piece of information in the new Perplexity Pages is cited and includes links to the original source — often opinions or research articles by people like me.
How do you create a Page in Perplexity?
The new Pages feature in Perplexity is accessible through the Library. You can then click to add a new Page, Thread or Collection. With the new Page you give it a topic, set the audience and let Perplexity get on with its research.
I tried it out by creating a page on the Civilization series of games. I’ve played Civ in one form or another since I got it with an Amiga 600 for my 11th birthday in the early 90s.
It was incredibly easy to set up. You give it the topic and it creates an overview page. You can then add header images and new sections. Each section is generated from a search query.
Perplexity told me sourcing the information and citations were vital. “In each section, you can view the sources for that content so you can always trace the information back to its original context,” a spokesperson said.
They even go as far to say: “If you remove a source, that section will be rewritten to no longer include information from that source.”
What is the point of AI Pages?
With Perplexity, and using search in Google Gemini and ChatGPT, its is transient content. You search, it provides and answer and if someone else asks the response will be slightly different.
Pages allows for the creation of specific pockets of information, generated by AI with citations to real, researched internet sources in a way that can be easily shared.
This poses a challenge to Wikipedia — which itself provides much of the source material for the pages being generated — as people can just go straight to Perplexity Pages for the details.
However, as the company points out, the value is in the citation, with links back to every page. So, as long as Wikipedia or any other source continues to be updated then it will always get links from Perplexity Pages.
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