# Perplexity — the record The citation-forward answer engine — a bellwether for how AI search credits (and pays) the open web. Perplexity's record here is mostly litigation, with two measurement datapoints attached. In the Southern District of New York, a judge denied Perplexity and SerpApi's motions to dismiss Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims — days after a different judge dismissed most of Google's near-identical DMCA claims against the same scraper. Days later the Ninth Circuit reversed the preliminary injunction barring Perplexity's agentic browser Comet from Amazon.com, holding Perplexity unlikely to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because the user, not Perplexity, directs the Assistant's access. On behavior: Writesonic measured Perplexity omitting the source brand in 52% of citations, the highest of seven engines tested, and Seer Interactive found it the least recency-bound of three engines tested. Also known as: https://www.perplexity.ai/ · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124333951 - 2026-09-11: Peec AI launches AI referrals to track chatbot conversions (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-11-peec-ai-launches-ai-referrals-to-track-chatbot-conversions/) Peec AI launched AI referrals, a feature that connects to Google Analytics 4 to show sessions, conversions, and revenue from AI-assistant traffic — broken… - 2026-09-10: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews audited on mental health citations (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-10-chatgpt-perplexity-ai-overviews-audited-on-mental-health-citations/) A cross-platform audit tested ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overview on 20 English mental-health questions plus queries in six additional languages… - 2026-09-03: Ten Speed: product pages draw 24% of AI citations, Reddit 4% (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-03-ten-speed-product-pages-draw-24-of-ai-citations-reddit-4/) Ten Speed analyzed 170 B2B buyer-evaluation prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini, generating 7,387 citation appearances tracked via the… - 2026-09-01: New buyer-persona corpus measures demand for AI citations (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-01-new-buyer-persona-corpus-measures-demand-for-ai-citations/) A new arXiv preprint describes PersonaGen-1M, a corpus of 1,031,732 synthetic buyer personas spanning 511 industry labels and 4 market contexts, built to… - 2026-08-28: Perplexity raises First Amendment defense in Reddit's DMCA suit (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-28-perplexity-raises-first-amendment-defense-in-reddit-s-dmca-suit/) Perplexity has raised a First Amendment defense in Reddit's DMCA suit against it and SerpApi, following the same move Anthropic made in the Gilbert… - 2026-08-23: AI assistants miss 85.6% of Bali restaurants in market census (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-23-ai-assistants-miss-85-6-of-bali-restaurants-in-market-census/) A Norly Research audit of 4,776 food-service venues across two Bali submarkets found ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity failed to recommend at least… - 2026-08-22: Perplexity moves to dismiss most of CNN's claims (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-22-perplexity-moves-to-dismiss-most-of-cnn-s-claims/) Perplexity asked a court to dismiss Counts II through V of CNN's copyright complaint — everything except the claims tied to Perplexity's training-data… - 2026-08-18: Perplexity's India revenue rose 60% after Airtel offer ended (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-18-perplexity-s-india-revenue-rose-60-after-airtel-offer-ended/) Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% from February through mid-August 2026, compared with the period when its free 12-month Pro offer via Airtel was… - 2026-08-11: Perplexity blocks Time's markdown ads from its AI results (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-11-perplexity-blocks-time-s-markdown-ads-from-its-ai-results/) Perplexity has blocked markdown ads that Time began running in the agent-readable versions of its pages, calling the practice deceptive, per Digiday. - 2026-08-06: Study ties AI citation likelihood to how recently a page was updated (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-06-study-ties-ai-citation-likelihood-to-how-recently-a-page-was-updated/) Seer Interactive analyzed 47,097 citations across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity for four brands over a four-month window and found 75% of cited pages had… - 2026-08-05: 9th Circuit reverses Perplexity CFAA injunction in Amazon suit (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-05-9th-circuit-reverses-perplexity-cfaa-injunction-in-amazon-suit/) The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity AI's agentic browser Comet from operating on Amazon.com… - 2026-07-31: Reddit's DMCA suit against Perplexity, SerpApi survives dismissal bid (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-31-reddit-s-dmca-suit-against-perplexity-serpapi-survives-dismissal-bid/) A federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied Perplexity and SerpApi's motions to dismiss Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims, per Ars… - 2026-07-29: Writesonic study finds AI engines often skip naming source brands (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-29-writesonic-study-finds-ai-engines-often-skip-naming-source-brands/) Writesonic analyzed roughly 16 million brand appearances across seven AI answer engines over a 30-day window and found citations frequently reference… - 2026-07-23: Ahrefs ranks the 50 most-cited domains across four AI surfaces (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-ahrefs-ranks-the-50-most-cited-domains-across-four-ai-surfaces/) Ahrefs published July citation-share rankings of the most-cited websites in Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity, tracked across US queries… Canonical: https://anythingengineoptimization.com/entity/perplexity/ From Anything Engine Optimization (AEO Wire) — https://anythingengineoptimization.com/entity/