Meta/Facebook Crawling Web & May Be Building Search Engine

Aug 10, 2026 06:51 PM - 1 hour ago 1

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Meta, the societal media institution that operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, is allegedly crawling the web and successful the process of building its ain hunt engine. Pieter Levels posted astir this shape connected X and wrote, "Meta is ALLEGEDLY building their ain Google hunt engine, truthful that if their AI does a web hunt it doesn't extremity up astatine Google, arsenic Google could past usage it for THEIR training, truthful they want their ain web scale that they will past usage arsenic their ain Meta hunt motor for their AI."

He posted these screenshots showing the crawling of his properties:

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Facebook has wanted to build its ain hunt work for well complete a decade. Eventually, Facebook partnered pinch Bing to powerfulness its web hunt features only to drop the partnership a mates of years later. I mean, I person a devoted conception connected this tract to conscionable Facebook search but now we are successful the world of AI.

Facebook, for illustration Google, for illustration Microsoft, for illustration X and for illustration each the different large companies want to build retired its ain AI. To do so, you mightiness not beryllium capable to dangle connected partners to springiness you a web index. So this does make consciousness arsenic a adjacent measurement for Facebook/Meta...

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Meta is ALLEGEDLY building their ain Google hunt engine, truthful that if their AI does a web hunt it doesn't extremity up astatine Google, arsenic Google could past usage it for THEIR training, truthful they want their ain web scale that they will then… https://t.co/bpjkqRO7rT

— @levelsio (@levelsio) August 6, 2026

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