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AI chat systems are not just an additional tool to search engines; they can replace them.

That's a scenario several startups are exploring. How is it different? Your search query is a prompt. Instead of browsing a search results page, you get blocks of text and, on top, links to sources, images, and videos.

Perplexity is one of the startups that you use like an AI chat service, but the results feature its sources prominently, suggest follow-up prompts, and more.

One core problem is the ability to infuse up-to-date knowledge. If you ask Perplexity, "Tell me something about King Charles," you only get served Wikipedia-like results. If your prompt says, "Does King Charles have cancer?" you get up-to-date news.

So, Perplexity does infuse up-to-date knowledge; it just hasn't figured out to do it in a way like Google, which in such a case would show its "Google News" section with all the latest on top of your search query.

Nevertheless, startups are going after Google's market share. Hundreds of startups have tried to invent new search engines in the past; now it seems Google can be replaced by something completely different - AI Chat.

NY Times columnist Kevin Roose took Perplexity for an in-depth test and shares his findings in this article.

By now, we are all aware that the results of a conversation with an AI chatbot vary depending on the prompt quality. This little tool helps to build a prompt that captures the basics. Add everything you know, copy the prompt to ChatGPT, and start a conversation.

Here's an example.

Creating apps and websites by writing prompts enables not-so-tech-savvy people to create visual and clickable prototypes of their ideas quickly. Galileo is an app that you can use to create interface designs with a prompt. Here is how it works:

• Start by typing a prompt that describes the app or website you want to create
• Galileo replies with what it intends to create based on your prompt.
• You can further fine-tune your idea via chat or go ahead and create a first draft
• Then, the first design of your app gets created
• You can tune individual screens via prompt or copy the created design over to Figma for further customization
• It also supports turning an image into an interface design (aka napkin sketch to design)

I tried Galileo to create an app called "LiterarySwipes" that allows you to browse through book titles in a Tinder-like app. Watch the one-minute demo and the results.

Arc gets celebrated for rethinking how we use the web from the ground up. Their core product, the Arc browser (featured in issue 79), brought a fresh approach to how we interact with a browser and what a browser can be apart from just... a browser. Now, the startup has shipped an app called Arc Search (iOS only). You enter a search term, and the app searches multiple sources and creates a tab that combines those results. You do not see a search results page and do not go to specific websites. If such concepts are successful, this is terrible news for Google and bloggers, media outlets, and anyone who wants website visits.

This broken link checker helps to locate links on your site that need to be fixed. 

ChatGPT is so much more than a tool for text generation. In this blog post, I share 28 examples of actual prompts I used in the past across content creation, research, business advice, analytics, and more

What did it feel like to browse the web in its early days? Explore this page. Be sure to click the web-ring buttons at the bottom.

Created by Rolf Mistelbacher

A curious marketing nerd, content creator, and entrepreneur.
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