O’Reilly, the learning platform for technology professionals, has entered into a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to become one of the pioneers integrating Natural Language Web (NLWeb) into their websites.
NLWeb’s decentralized search understands context and intent, allowing both human users and AIs to ask complex, conversational questions and get relevant results without going to a centralized AI chat or search site.
O’Reilly’s integration will initially enable conversational search across 59,000 books, using Schema.org metadata to ensure accurate results without web crawling. This naturally extends the O’Reilly learning platform’s core mission of connecting diverse audiences, from individual practitioners to enterprise teams, with precisely the knowledge they need.
“We see NLWeb as a crucial component of an open ecosystem of protocols and tools that will shape the next evolution of the internet,” said Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly. “By implementing this technology early, we’re reminding our technically savvy audience that the original promise of the decentralized World Wide Web does not need to be abandoned to get the benefits of conversational AI.”
“Tim and the O’Reilly team have always been one of the bedrocks of the open internet – protocols, formats, code, ” said Ramanathan Guha, Technical Fellow and CVP, Microsoft.
“It is wonderful to be able to work with them (again) on the first step towards bringing AI to the web.”
