{"id":187440,"date":"2026-02-14T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/airbnb-is-testing-out-ai-search-with-a-small-percentage-of-users\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:50:10","slug":"airbnb-is-testing-out-ai-search-with-a-small-percentage-of-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/airbnb-is-testing-out-ai-search-with-a-small-percentage-of-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb is testing out AI search with a &#8216;small percentage&#8217; of users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/airbnb-is-testing-out-ai-search-with-a-small-percentage-of-users-203054011.html\">Airbnb is testing out AI search with a &#8216;small percentage&#8217; of users<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/airbnb-is-testing-out-ai-search-with-a-small-percentage-of-users-203054011.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/airbnb-is-testing-out-ai-search-with-a-small-percentage-of-users-203054011.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-14 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Airbnb aims to enhance user experience for both guests and hosts by heavily investing in artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>During an earnings call, CEO Brian Chesky indicated that this push towards AI includes building an &#8220;AI-native experience&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>An AI search tool is currently live for a small group of users, aiming to assist guests in booking trips more effectively.<\/li>\n<li>Airbnb&#8217;s AI search tool is in early testing phase, aimed at providing a more natural and interactive way to find listings and get location information.<\/li>\n<li>The company is also expanding the capabilities of its AI chatbot that assists with customer service, which currently handles a third of requests in North America and is set to roll out globally.<\/li>\n<li>Airbnb plans to significantly enhance the AI chatbot&#8217;s capabilities in tackling customer service tickets, extending its use beyond North America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb is testing out AI search with a &#8216;small percentage&#8217; of users https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/airbnb-is-testing-out-ai-search-with-a-small-percentage-of-users-203054011.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/VH6IDizEofNV7IN1.stFdQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2026-02\/bba1b4d0-09df-11f1-b1ff-9e2e09e7a7f5","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-187440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187442,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187440\/revisions\/187442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}