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Quick answer or Pro Search?[2]

Perplexity always cites, but how hard it digs is up to you. The default is built for speed; Pro Search plans, runs multiple searches, and asks a clarifying question when your query is ambiguous.

Search

The fast default

One pass over the web, an answer in seconds, numbered citations you can click. Right for facts, news, and anything you would previously have Googled and skimmed.

Pro

Multi-step search

Pro Search breaks your question into parts, searches each, and may ask you a clarifying question first. Use it when the answer has to reconcile several sources.

Focus

Pick your sources

Point the search at the whole web, academic papers, or social discussion before you ask. An academic focus turns the same question into a literature check.

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What you will do in the lesson[1]

You answer and try things. Nobody demonstrates at you for five minutes.

  1. Ask, then click a citation. You trace one claim in an answer back to its numbered source and check whether the source really says it. This habit is the whole game.
  2. Watch a citation fail. You meet an answer where the source does not support the sentence, and practise catching it before it catches you.
  3. Escalate to Pro Search. You rerun a question that got a shallow answer and compare what the multi-step search adds.
  4. Switch the focus. You send one question to web sources and academic sources and see how the evidence, and the answer, changes.
  5. Ask a follow-up that narrows. You practise the second question, tightening scope instead of starting a fresh search from zero.

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People also ask

Do I have to install or sign up for anything first?

No. The lesson runs in this page as is. Perplexity itself also works in a browser without an account for basic searches.

Are the citations reliable?

The links are real, but a summary can drift from what a source actually says. That gap is exactly what the lesson trains you to check. Click through before you repeat a claim.

Is Perplexity free?

Yes for standard searches, with a daily allowance of Pro Searches. The paid tier mostly buys more Pro Searches and model choice. Everything in this lesson works on free.

When is Perplexity better than Google?

Google is still faster for navigation, one-fact lookups, and anything local. Perplexity pulls ahead when the answer must be assembled from several pages: comparisons, summaries, research questions. Many people keep Google for finding and Perplexity for understanding.

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