Meta is developing its own web search engine to make itself more independent of Google and Microsoft’s Bing. The technology will primarily be used to feed the company’s own AI chatbot with up-to-date information.

  • @TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    7124 days ago

    Oh goody. Another SEO-infested, ad-riddled, AI-plagued search engine that gives me everything except what I searched for. Exactly what I wanted.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    3124 days ago

    Yeah, good luck with that. The Facebook bots are so bad, they literally hammer sites into the ground, to the point where they’re actively being blocked.

    • @purrtastic@lemmy.nz
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      3224 days ago

      Just yesterday I banned Facebook’s user agent that is supposedly only used to generate link previews. It was being extremely aggressive, making 20 requests per second. At the time I thought “I bet they’re actually building their own search index”, and here we are.

    • Boozilla
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      124 days ago

      The Facebook bots are probably trying to make every lesser site feel bad about itself by comparing them to the much cooler and popular sites.

  • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    1724 days ago

    Cool!

    I’m not going to use it (screw you Meta), but more competition for Google is a good thing. Hopefully this shakes up the search market a bit.

  • @eronth@lemmy.world
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    823 days ago

    This is gonna be like the metaverse. It’s gonna get hyped up by all news sources like it’s the next big thing, but nobody will actually care or use it.

  • Echo Dot
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    623 days ago

    God what is this click clickbait article for?

    “X are secretly doing Y”

    Really so how do we know about it then?

  • @Rob200
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    624 days ago

    More competition. But, more capitalism. Tough call.

    But then there’s Searxng. Yeah Meta’s search engine isn’t worth it.

  • Alphane Moon
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    424 days ago

    Meta AI (I didn’t even know this was a thing) has 185 M WAUs?

    Is this a real number or some sort of misleading stats where they include people are only technically using it via some sort of hook into FB/Insta (don’t use them so not aware).

  • disguised_doge
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    224 days ago

    Meta is developing its own web search engine to make itself more independent of Google and Microsoft’s Bing. The technology will primarily be used to feed the company’s own AI chatbot with up-to-date information.

    More competition against Google is good, but man another AI focused search engine is not what I would be hoping for.