Meta, the social media company that operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, is allegedly crawling the web and in the process of building its own search engine. Pieter Levels posted about this pattern on X and wrote, "Meta is ALLEGEDLY building their own Google search engine, so that if their AI does a web search it doesn't end up at Google, as Google could then use it for THEIR training, so they want their own web index that they will then use as their own Meta search engine for their AI." Eventually, Facebook partnered with Bing to power its web search features only to drop the partnership a couple of years later. I mean, I have a devoted section on this site to just Facebook search but now we are in the world of AI. To do so, you might not be able to depend on partners to give you a web index.