Meta is secretly building its own search engine.
(the-decoder.com)
from Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 2024 17:10
https://feddit.org/post/4202023
from Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 28 Oct 2024 17:10
https://feddit.org/post/4202023
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.
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Cool, so another search engine to ignore.
Oh goody. Another SEO-infested, ad-riddled, AI-plagued search engine that gives me everything except what I searched for. Exactly what I wanted.
No you don’t understand, this one will say it respects your privacy
Have you tried wanting to be monetized?
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).
🥱
More competition. But, more capitalism. Tough call.
But then there’s Searxng. Yeah Meta’s search engine isn’t worth it.
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.
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.
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.
Isn’t every tech giant trying to do the same thing, no one like relying on google.
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.
Our sever logs say it’s not so much a secret
More competition against Google is good, but man another AI focused search engine is not what I would be hoping for.
Not anymore
God what is this click clickbait article for?
“X are secretly doing Y”
Really so how do we know about it then?
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.
Unless Facebook gets locked behind only using their browser. Hopefully that kills Facebook
Metasearch?
Fuck this company