I know the team built their custom system for this, which works great. However, from my layman’s viewpoint, I’d assume that Perplexity, which has search as its sole(-ish) focus, would (at least eventually) do a better job than any such custom subsystem and would perhaps also allow the Cursor team to have one less thing to worry about.
So I considered making this a feature request, i.e., giving the option to use Perplexity API whenever “@Web” is used.
Cheers!