PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot is the crawler for Perplexity, an answer engine that systematically cites its sources in numbered footnotes. Its technically savvy, trend-setting audience gives it a visibility impact out of proportion to its size.
In practice
Perplexity favors recent, precise sources: a dated, data-rich, well-structured page surfaces there faster than in Google. Citations are clickable and actually followed — referral traffic exists, unlike in some other assistants. Tracking share of voice on Perplexity often provides an early signal of what is coming on other platforms.