User books a boat ride entirely through a Perplexity prompt, skipping the site
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-24
A user shared how they booked a boat ride entirely through a natural-language prompt in Perplexity — describing their location (a Starbucks across from the Statue of Liberty) and asking which company runs the boats and how to book Sunday morning. They joked the company will never know the booking came via Perplexity. A small but telling example of agentic search quietly becoming the front door for local services and bookings.
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