Perplexity Comet

Perplexity’s browsing agent/browser idea. More on-page fetches, more user-triggered load.

Expect ChatGPT-User-like traffic patterns: bursty, human-initiated.

Don’t 403 unknown browsers that look like automation if you want this channel — verify properly.

Examples

Comet opens 12 tabs of vendors. Your modal signup blocks tab 1. You’re out of the comparison.

Agentic search is when software plans, browses, clicks, and compares instead of answering in one shot.

Models that operate GUIs: click, type, screenshot. Your CSS is now an API, whether you like it or not.

Perplexity is an answer engine that leads with sources. If you care about citations and Reddit URLs, this is the microscope.

Block headless Chrome? +

You’ll hit agents and some crawlers. Prefer verifying known bots over blanket headless bans.

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