App Content Will Soon Be Available in Safari Search Results as Google Expands App Indexing to iOS 9

[MacRumors]

Google today announced that its app indexing feature is now compatible with the HTTP deep link standards for iOS 9, which will allow iOS users to open mobile app content directly from the Google Search results page in Safari for iOS.

To use the feature, developers need to add Universal Links to their iOS apps and then integrate with Google's SDK. For end users, this change will result in better integration between search results and apps.

For example, when searching for a restaurant with Google Search and getting a Yelp result, clicking on the Yelp link will open the Yelp app on iOS instead of opening the Yelp website within Safari.

Google's app indexing feature for iOS was announced in May, but prior to today, it was limited to the Chrome browser and Google app for iOS. iOS users will begin to see app content in Safari on iOS starting at the end of October.

Article Link: App Content Will Soon Be Available in Safari Search Results as Google Expands App Indexing to iOS 9

 

[gleepskip]

This would require that I switch back to Google search from DuckDuckGo.

No thanks.

 

[farewelwilliams]

Looks like Google saw this as a threat and jumped on a solution as soon as possible.

 

[rekhyt]

Looks like Google saw this as a threat and jumped on a solution as soon as possible.

Saw what as a threat? Spotlight, or in-app deep linking?

 

[farewelwilliams]

Saw what as a threat? Spotlight, or in-app deep linking?

both. the spotlight is slowly replacing google search and it was problematic that I would click on a restaurant yelp page from a google search and it needed to load the page before it jumped out of Safari and into Yelp.

 

[bushido]

sounds good. waiting for the day a browser is barely neccessary anymore to use the net

 

[TSquared26]

I'm still waiting for support for World-Wide Web Worm engine. #foreveralone

 

[mgmusicman94]

This would require that I switch back to Google search from DuckDuckGo.

No thanks.

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[KALLT]

This sounds awfully confusing. Isn’t this a system-wide feature to begin with? When you click on an URL in any app, iOS will open it in the corresponding app provided it has registered the URL, if not, Safari is opened. Is Google doing something different again?

 

[2457282]

This would require that I switch back to Google search from DuckDuckGo.

No thanks.

Same here!

 

[MikeAnd]

So in the example, I could launch Safari, do a Google search, click on the Yelp result, and then get referred to the result in the Yelp app.

Or alternatively, I could just do a Spotlight search and go directly to the result in the Yelp app.

Which is simpler?

 

[Rogifan]

When is Google going to support 3D Touch?

 

[adamjackson]

So if I use DDG, I won't see these? Good to know. Google keeps making it easier to ignore everything about their company.

 

[djgamble]

This would require that I switch back to Google search from DuckDuckGo.

No thanks.

Yeeeeah... no thanks Google

DDG has become my default search engine everywhere. When somebody says 'Google it' I always have a bit of a smirk knowing that I'm going nowhere near Google.

 

[jpgr15]

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[ArtOfWarfare]

Yeeeeah... no thanks Google

DDG has become my default search engine everywhere. When somebody says 'Google it' I always have a bit of a smirk knowing that I'm going nowhere near Google.

I netted another convert today with

Timer 3:00

Try DDG'ing it.

 

[C DM]

Ah, yes, my search engine is cooler than yours and therefore...

 

[dannyyankou]

They already do this for Amazon and Yelp. Not a fan. At least give us a choice whether webpages open in Safari or open an app.

 

[Studioman]

This would require that I switch back to Google search from DuckDuckGo.

No thanks.

Not gonna happen.

 

[BergerFan]

In a year or two's time...
Apple buys DDG.

 

[khaosuser]

This would require that I switch back to Google search from DuckDuckGo.

No thanks.

Mind if I ask why you use DDG?

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Mind if I ask why you use DDG?

Bangs, privacy, and they accept pull requests.

1 - Example, type "!py split" and it'll jump straight to the Python documentation for splitting. "!a MacBook Pro" and it'll jump straight to the MacBook Pro on Amazon. "!w iPhone" and it'll jump straight to the page on the iPhone on Wikipedia. There are thousands of bangs. Do !bangs if you want to see the full list.

2 - They don't track who you are. They don't filter your results based on who you are (************************** is actually BS - because Google shows different people different things, you don't know whether someone else could have actually reached a page via Google.) Even if you're fine with Google having 600 pages worth of information on you, keep in mind that nothing is unhackable. Sooner or later, Google is going to be hacked, or there will be a malicious employee, and those novels of data that they have on you is going to hit the black market. Your SSN, address, high school, birthday, birth town, parents, employer, car, license plate, salary, etc. There's more than enough for someone to call your bank, prove that they're you, and drain your accounts. Duck Duck Go doesn't store your info. Ads are based on your current search topic and nothing more. They don't serve ads to other people, so they won't track you from page to page the way Google will. They won't read your email the way Google will.

3 - Duck Duck Go allows anyone to contribute. I personally added !python27. Other things people have added are "Regex cheat sheet" and "timer".

 

[khaosuser]

Bangs, privacy, and they accept pull requests.

1 - Example, type "!py split" and it'll jump straight to the Python documentation for splitting. "!a MacBook Pro" and it'll jump straight to the MacBook Pro on Amazon. "!w iPhone" and it'll jump straight to the page on the iPhone on Wikipedia. There are thousands of bangs. Do !bangs if you want to see the full list.

2 - They don't track who you are. They don't filter your results based on who you are (************************** is actually BS - because Google shows different people different things, you don't know whether someone else could have actually reached a page via Google.) Even if you're fine with Google having 600 pages worth of information on you, keep in mind that nothing is unhackable. Sooner or later, Google is going to be hacked, or there will be a malicious employee, and those novels of data that they have on you is going to hit the black market. Your SSN, address, high school, birthday, birth town, parents, employer, car, license plate, salary, etc. There's more than enough for someone to call your bank, prove that they're you, and drain your accounts. Duck Duck Go doesn't store your info. Ads are based on your current search topic and nothing more. They don't serve ads to other people, so they won't track you from page to page the way Google will. They won't read your email the way Google will.

3 - Duck Duck Go allows anyone to contribute. I personally added !python27. Other things people have added are "Regex cheat sheet" and "timer".

Interesting. I'm going to look into it. I'd honestly never really heard of them so wanted to hear why people switch. Thanks!

 

[TheDetailsMatter]

Just noticed Yelp's app lets you continue to thru to the site when you link from Safari — which I think is pretty neat.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

I really hate this kind of functionality. I keep getting it for looking at twitter pages - i.e. I just want to quickly check a company's twitter page in safari by clicking their twitter link but then Safari kicks me out and launches Twitter. If I wanted to do it in the app, I would have done so myself. I find the process jarring.