Two Chinese AI companies made the same move within days of each other. On October 17, DeepSeek said search on its website and API now runs on its own in-house engine, which it says indexes hundreds of billions of pages and filters out SEO spam and GEO manipulation, and opened it to developers at $0.75 per 1,000 requests. Not long ago DeepSeek’s privacy policy only said it used unnamed third-party search APIs. On October 20, Tencent opened Yuanbao Search, the engine behind its Yuanbao assistant and more than 50 Tencent products, through Tencent Cloud. Tencent says it has an index of hundreds of billions of pages, handles hundreds of millions of calls a day and plugs into 157 authoritative sources across 13 industries like finance, medicine, law and travel. The part I find most interesting is how they pick sources DeepSeek’s API shows an authority tier from 0 to 4 for every result. In a day-one test for Search Engine Journal, every page on the same host got the same tier, so a big site’s reputation carries over to everything on it that cuts both ways. Spam PDFs on a US government site and junk uploads on a Columbia Business School site both got the top tier Tencent says it rates quality at the site, account and page level, favors authoritative sources, and tries to answer with as few documents as possible So the search layer under these assistants is becoming the real gatekeeper. If your site is not in the index, or sits on a low-authority host, the AI may never see it, however good the content is. Caveat, the DeepSeek test was one person, one day and one region, and Tencent’s numbers are its own claims. Do you think AI companies building their own search engines makes answers more trustworthy, or just concentrates even more power over what gets seen? submitted by /u/Sanbi_Ai
Originally posted by u/Sanbi_Ai on r/ArtificialInteligence