AI crawler
PerplexityBot
Also: Perplexity crawler, Perplexity user agent
Perplexity citations are the fastest moving signal a clinic, firm, or contractor sees post rebuild. Because Perplexity retrieves live, a freshly published page can begin appearing in Perplexity answers within hours rather than the weeks Google AI Overviews requires.
Perplexity research published in 2025 indicates 46.7 percent of top Perplexity citations originate from Reddit threads, alongside niche publishers and vendor documentation. Premium specialty businesses that engage substantively on relevant subreddits (medical aesthetics, weight loss, personal injury, kitchen remodeling) tend to compound Perplexity citation share faster than those who only optimize on domain.
Cited facts
- Perplexity gets up to 46.7 percent of top citations from Reddit threads (Reddit r/aeo, 2026).
- Perplexity uses a three layer (L3) reranking system: broad retrieval, quality reranking, final synthesis with inline numerical citations.