This should let websites easily tune into the revolution of AI search, allowing for natural language processing right from the search bar, says Microsoft.
Natural language process as revolution
This is fourth revolution in computers, says Ramanathan V. Guha, a technical fellow at Microsoft, — being able to communicate with applications, and computers in general, with free-form language, to The Verge.
— “[It] allows users to interact directly with web content in a rich, semantic manner, says Microsoft’s press office, according to TehChrunch.
Don’t just search, talk to it
After an initial search, you are supposed to encounter an AI chatbot that lets you refine or edit your search, using a model of the websites choice.
It should also help with LLM discovery of your site and let it get crawled by them in one easy step, as if anyone has any problems with that, at a time when ai bots are swarming the internet like a constant storm of bees.
Not taking off just yet
Microsoft’s launch page lists a lot of interesting websites that has been testing the tech, but a few spot checks reveal not a lot of them are using it in actual production yet.
You can install NLWeb on you own website with the inclusion of some «lightweight code» that you get from NLWeb GitHub repo.
Read more: Microsofts launch page, The Verge takes a philosophical view, and TehChrunch has the summarized news.