Submitted 3 weeks ago by Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://the-decoder.com/report-meta-is-secretly-building-its-own-search-engine/
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.
Cool, so another search engine to ignore.
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.
Our sever logs say it’s not so much a secret
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.
Not anymore
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
More competition. But, more capitalism. Tough call.
But then there’s Searxng. Yeah Meta’s search engine isn’t worth it.
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God what is this click clickbait article for?
“X are secretly doing Y”
Really so how do we know about it then?
Isn’t every tech giant trying to do the same thing, no one like relying on google.
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).
Fuck this company
Metasearch?
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Scolding7300@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No you don’t understand, this one will say it respects your privacy
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Have you tried wanting to be monetized?