AI Search

Search is drifting away from ten blue links toward running the research for you, then showing exactly which pages the answer rests on.

AI search reads well as three layers: answer engines that rewrite results into prose, agentic search that keeps browsing and cross-checking, and grounding that ties answers to verifiable sources. They solve different problems - reading less, researching less, and trusting more. Before choosing a tool, decide whether you need traceable citations, a conversation that keeps context, or structured answers to messy questions.

Agent Shoppers Blocked at the Store Door: 403s Doubled, 42% of Consumers Will Not Hand Over the Buy Button

Agent shopping is one of the loudest scenarios in this AI race: let an agent browse stores, compare prices and place the order for you. On October 16,...

Admin 10/16/2026

Is Perplexica Worth Self-Hosting? The Open-Source AI Search That Trades a Subscription for Upkeep

Perplexica is an open-source AI answering engine. It searches the web through SearxNG, a self-hostable metasearch engine, then has a large language mo...

Admin 10/14/2026

LangSmith Launches AI Search: Find Agent Traces by Behavior, Not Keywords

LangSmith added AI Search on October 13, 2026, in an announcement on the LangChain blog. When teams review what their agents have been doing, what the...

Admin 10/13/2026

How to Choose an AI Trip Planner: Solo Trips, Family Travel and Business Trips Need Different Tools

Choosing the wrong AI trip planner rarely produces an ugly itinerary; it produces one that looks complete on screen and falls apart on the ground, wit...

Admin 10/12/2026

Can't Find the References an AI Gave You? Four Steps to Check Whether They Are Fabricated

If the references an AI gave you cannot be found in any database, the odds are you did not search wrong — it fabricated them: plausible authors, journ...

Admin 10/10/2026

Perplexity Launches Alexandria: 66,574 Encyclopedia Entries, Every Claim Traceable to Its Sources

Perplexity launched Alexandria on October 9, 2026: a free encyclopedia built by its agent system Computer, which will also keep maintaining it. In the...

Admin 10/9/2026

Perplexity Open-Sources Multimodal Embedding Models: Text and Images Share One Retrieval Space

Perplexity's new embedding models put text and images into a single retrieval space. On October 7, 2026, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced the...

Admin 10/8/2026

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Google AI Overviews Lawsuits Dismissed: Why an Expectation of Traffic Is Not an Agreement

The Google AI Overviews lawsuits have been dismissed: on September 30, 2026, Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ...

Admin 10/6/2026