This analogy doesn't map to the actual problem here.
Perplexity is not visiting a website everytime a user asks about it. It's frequently crawling and indexing the web, thus redirecting traffic away from websites.
This crawling reduces costs and improves latency for Perplexity and its users. But it's a major threat to crawled websites
Perplexity is not visiting a website everytime a user asks about it. It's frequently crawling and indexing the web, thus redirecting traffic away from websites.
This crawling reduces costs and improves latency for Perplexity and its users. But it's a major threat to crawled websites