Google has shut down Duplex on the Net and has retired its internet crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a discover of this on this assist doc saying “Duplex on the Net is deprecated, and can now not be supported as of December, 2022. Any automation options enabled by Duplex on the Net will now not be supported after this date.”
Duplex on the internet. Google referred to as this function “Duplex on the internet,” and it allowed customers to make use of the Google Assistant for brand spanking new reservations and different buy classes. It will name a restaurant, for instance, to e-book a desk reservation for dinner, once you requested Google to e-book you a reservation.
It labored for film tickets, aiding 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 internet crawler. Google posted on this different assist doc, concerning the deprecation of this internet crawler.
Google additionally added a brand new part to the Google crawler doc for retired crawlers:
Why we care. Should you noticed crawling exercise from DuplexWeb-Google, that ought to cease going ahead. Additionally, it makes you marvel if native companies will probably be receiving calls from Google’s Duplex or different methods sooner or later or not. It appears not? And if not, why has Google been quiet about this announcement?
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