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This $500 Million Startup Could Kill Google’s Search Engine.
The tech giant looks like it’s going to be getting a run for its money.

Ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to this year’s ‘Tech-Town Showdown!’ — Our annual, no-holds-barred fight night!
Today’s first fight is sure to be one for the ages! Our fighters are competing for the Heavyweight Title in the ‘Search League.’
In the red corner — we’ve got our long-standing champion fighting to defend their title yet again. Let’s hear some noise for GOOGLE!
And in the blue corner, we’ve got a new kid on the block… The underdog that’s made waves everywhere they go. A fighter that’s trained under the numerous legends that we know and love. Give it up for PERPLEXITY AI!
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So, without any further ado, let’s get down to business!
Maybe I should really become a fight announcer… better yet, I can start organizing MMA fights where Silicon Valley CEOs put their companies on the line!
I’d pay good money to watch Musk and Bezos duke it out, or in this case, a clash between Google and Perplexity’s CEOs.
On one hand, we have Google.
The company that propelled us into the “Era of Search,” whose name became so synonymous with ‘looking something up’ that it’s now a verb in the Oxford Dictionary;
For the last decade, Google has consistently ranked as one of the world’s top 5 most valuable companies.
And now, with the AI revolution looming front and center. Google has been getting baskets and bouquets of opportunities and threats.
Obviously, Google’s first response to the AI revolution — Bard, wasn’t great…
But it was strategic.
Bard’s launch was a statement from Google to the world, telling us that it’s not backing away from the AI race and that it has what it takes to compete with this new market’s contenders.