Perplexity Browser turned my random Google searches into structured learning sessions

I used to open Edge with good intentions—research a topic, answer one question—and end up with 47 tabs I’d never revisit. My browser sometimes turned into a graveyard of curiosity.

Then I tried Perplexity’s Comet browser, which went free for everyone in October 2025 after initially launching to paid subscribers in July. Comet features a sidecar assistant that helps answer questions about web pages, summarize content, and navigate sites on your behalf. Applied right, it can be a fundamental shift in how you approach learning online.

Traditional browsers are retrieval tools. You search, click, scan, open more tabs, and hope you’ll synthesize it all later. Perplexity Browser transforms that passive experience into active learning by treating every search as the start of a conversation, not the end of one.

Where Google dumped me into chaos

The tab hoarder’s dlemma

I started one morning trying to understand how sourdough bread develops its flavor. Practical enough question—I’ve been experimenting with baking at home. On Google, I’d search “how sourdough develops flavor,” click the first result, realize I needed to understand wild yeast…