Google has shut down Duplex on the Net and has retired its net crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a discover of this on this assist doc saying “Duplex on the Net is deprecated, and can not be supported as of December, 2022. Any automation options enabled by Duplex on the Net will not be supported after this date.”
Duplex on the internet. Google referred to as this characteristic “Duplex on the internet,” and it allowed customers to make use of the Google Assistant for brand new reservations and different buy classes. It could name a restaurant, for instance, to ebook a desk reservation for dinner, while you requested Google to ebook you a reservation.
It labored for film tickets, helping with trying out for on-line retail shops, meals ordering, flight check-ins, password modifications and low cost finders.
DuplexWeb-Google crawler. With the deprecation of Duplex on the Net, Google has retired the DuplexWeb-Google net crawler. Google posted on this different assist doc, in regards to the deprecation of this net crawler.
Google additionally added a brand new part to the Google crawler doc for retired crawlers:
Why we care. When you noticed crawling exercise from DuplexWeb-Google, that ought to cease going ahead. Additionally, it makes you surprise if native companies will likely be receiving calls from Google’s Duplex or different programs sooner or later or not. It appears not? And if not, why has Google been quiet about this announcement?
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