Summary: Perplexity adds Shopping and Finance search modes

Why It Matters: The tool is moving away from general research and toward specific tasks like buying products and tracking money. This suggests they want to be useful for daily errands and financial decisions, not just school or work projects.

What Changed:

• Added new "Shopping" and "Finance" categories to the main interface.
• Added "Analyze" and "Recommend" as primary action options.
• Removed the "Research," "Plan," "Compare," and "Summarize" labels.
• Removed the promotion for "Comet," their AI browser extension.
• Simplified the homepage by removing the "Finish work faster" marketing text.