Google is a librarian. Perplexity is a tutor. One points you to shelves of books; the other gives you the answer directly.

Google’s results depend heavily on backlinks and keywords. Perplexity pulls from structured entities and context across the web.

If you’re not mentioned in the sources it trusts, you don’t exist. That’s why treating your brand as an entity, not just a keyword, matters more than ever.

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Biweekly. About 4 minutes to read. From Matt Bertram, President of ModalPoint and CEO of EWR Digital.