By Khamosh Pathak
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 22:30:00
You probably use Perplexity as a quick answer machine. Instead of Google Search, you ask Perplexity questions, and it responds with citations you can check yourself. While Perplexity is good at this, the scope of what the service can do (especially in the paid tiers) goes way beyond. After integrating some built-in features, harnessing the power of Perplexity Computer’s background processing, and adding the Comet AI browser to the mix, you can turn Perplexity from yet another AI service into a fully fledged research assistant to help you get things done quickly.
Set Perplexity as your default search engine for faster access
Credit: Khamosh Pathak
While Perplexity can now do extensive research, create mini-apps, and automate tasks, Perplexity’s biggest advantage is being a search engine alternative to Google Search, one that is heavily focused on showing relevant sources. To that end, if you start using Perplexity more, you might want to make it your default search engine. But in most browsers, Perplexity isn’t recognized as a search engine yet. You’ll have to do so manually.
In Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers), go to Settings > Search Engine > Manage search engine and site search. Go to the Site Search section, and click the Add button. In the Search engine section, type in “Perplexity.” In the…
