India, July 16 -- In more than ten years, the search engine Google Search has been considered the absolute monarch of internet search and has a global market share of nearly 90 percent by early 2025. But recently a new competitor has shown up, the new AI powered browser Comet made by Perplexity that seeks to transform web exploration and make it highly AI-driven. Statcounter reported that Google had lost its grip over the global search engine market below the 90 percent mark since 2015. Google's global search market share was under 90% during each of the final three months of 2024. The question is- Is Comet opening up a new era that can shake up the long held dominance of Google?

Google has lost its global search dominance, falling below...