Another Google service will soon join the company 🇧🇷 This week, the search giant quietly announced that it was shutting down Duplex on the Web. inside we’ve seen before The company notes that the service will not launch after the end of 2022. “As we continue to improve the Duplex experience, we are heeding feedback we hear from users and developers about how we can improve it,” a spokesperson for Google said. “By the end of this year, we will move away from Duplex on the web and focus fully on making AI advances in the duplex voice technology that helps so many people every day.”
Google first announced Web Duplex in as an expansion of it 🇧🇷 Initially, the feature was thought to help Android users buy movie tickets. Duplex on the Web gave the assistant the ability to browse websites on his own. As long as you have your credit card information stored in Chrome, Assistant can handle all the work of buying movie tickets. Later, Google expanded the feature to protect users from online data breaches. You can also use it occasionally to check flights and keep track of discounts.
As for why Google Web Duplex is shutting down, Techcrunch It is suggested that it may have something to do with the cost of training an AI to analyze websites. The feature support page says that Google uses a special user agent to crawl websites multiple times a day. Also, the performance of Duplex on the web can be greatly affected if the site administrators prevent the crawler from indexing its content.
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