I tried replacing Google Search with Perplexity Comet. There was a clear winner

Google Search is still one of the tools I use every single day. I use it for work, for quick personal lookups, for checking sources, for finding product pages, and for answering the random questions that come up throughout the day. But over the past few years, it has started to feel a lot heavier than it used to. There are more ads to scan past, more boxes competing for attention, and now more AI-generated summaries sitting above the traditional list of links.

That doesn’t make Google useless. It’s still fast, familiar, and usually gets me where I need to go. But I’ve also found myself trusting the experience less than I used to. I spend more time sorting through the page, deciding what’s useful, and figuring out whether the answer Google is pushing at the top is actually the one I want. So when friends and coworkers kept telling me good things about Perplexity’s Comet browser, I wanted to see if it could fit into my daily workflow. Not as a novelty, but as a real replacement for the way I use Google Search every day.

Comet changes the search workflow

I wasn’t trying to replace my browser. I was trying to replace a habit

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