Agentic Browsers automate the internet experience. But is that the right way?
On February 24, 2025, Perplexity announced a web browser known as Comet. Besides the name, the business didn’t announce what the browser would be like, what its specifications are, or what the design is.
The company posted on X with a single message:-
“Comet: A Browser for Agentic Search by Perplexity
Coming soon.”
They are creating a browser that will probably have all of Perplexity’s accesses, like their search engine and other tools, but will also do what an Agentic browser does- automate your web surfing.
In some agentic browsers, you put in a prompt – say, search for restaurants in my area with 5-star ratings and create a list of these restaurants, but also make sure fish is their main dish.
The browser will do exactly that for you- saving you a lot of time.
The question is: Are we automating everything?
Everything that can be automated will be automated. The trends reflect this truth.
But are we headed in the right direction? This will save us a lot of time in searching and researching. Especially with Perplexity’s tool, deep research, the web browser would do all sorts of stuff that helps researchers.
However, isn’t discovery part of who we are? We can only be hopeful and use the time we save from research and other automated tasks to do something complex and meaningful.