Meta Takes Step To Replace Google Index In AI Search via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Meta is reportedly processing a hunt motor scale for its AI chatbot to trim reliance connected Google for AI-generated summaries of existent events. Meta AI appears to beryllium evolving to the adjacent signifier of becoming a afloat autarkic AI hunt engine.

Meta-ExternalAgent

Meta has been crawling the Internet since astatine slightest this past summertime from a idiosyncratic cause called, Meta-ExternalAgent. There person been aggregate reports successful assorted forums astir excessive amounts of crawling with 1 idiosyncratic connected Hacker News reporting having received 50,000 hits by the bot. A post successful the WebmasterWorld bot crawling forum notes that though the documentation for Meta-ExternalAgent says it respects robots.txt it wouldn’t person made a quality due to the fact that the bot ne'er visited the file.

It whitethorn beryllium that the bot wasn’t afloat acceptable earlier this twelvemonth and that it’s mediocre behaviour has settled down.

The intent of the bot is to summarize hunt results and according to the results it’s to trim reliance connected Google and Bing for hunt results.

Is This A Challenge To Google?

It whitethorn beryllium imaginable that this is so a the prelude to a situation to Google (and different hunt engines) successful AI search. The accusation astatine this clip supports that this is astir creating a hunt scale to complement their Meta AI. As reported successful The Verge, Meta is crawling sites for hunt summaries to beryllium utilized wrong the Meta AI Chatbot:

“The hunt motor would reportedly supply AI-generated hunt summaries of existent events wrong the Meta AI chatbot.”

The Meta AI chatbot looks similar a hunt motor and it’s wide that it’s inactive utilizing Google’s hunt index.

For example, a hunt t Meta AI astir the caller crippled 4 of the World Series showed a summary with an close reply that had a nexus to Google.

Screenshot Of Meta AI With Link To Google Search

Here’s a adjacent up showing the nexus to Google hunt results and a nexus to the sources:

Screenshot Of Close-Up Of Meta AI Results

Clicking connected the View Sources fastener spawns a popup with links to Google Search.

Screenshot Of Meta AI View Sources Pop-Up

Read the archetypal reports:

A study was posted successful The Verge, based connected different reported published connected The Information.

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