Watch it be only search engine on apple products.....with a monthly subscription and in app purchases for more results or to get rid of ads.
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Report: Apple 'Stepping Up Efforts' to Develop Alternative to Google Search
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You have to factor in the antitrust inquiries. Having google pay is the best alternative, but if they take it away, having an own search engine making a couple bucks is better than having a search engine selector for free.
Well since this will take years in court Apple has plenty of time to figure it all out. As they always do
I’ve used Bing over Google for years for media searches because it’s waaaay better. As of late general searches have been better too.
You are genuinely tripping!
Search (presumably due to almost ZERO competition) has progressed less than any other heavily used technology in the last decade.
Think about how much better gps has got in the last 10 years- it’s barely a similar experience to what it was.
Now consider lame ass search...
Natural language is near nonexistent.
In 2010 I couldn’t type: “hey, where can I find the cheapest transmission near me?”; like one normally talks... instead, I craft a cumbersome computer talk query like: “inexpensive auto parts transmission 2012 Jaguar XJL North Central Florida”.
Now that it’s 2020..... oh wait; it still works EXACTLY the same way!
There is nearly nothing that feels “advanced”, or even approaches “peak search performance” in search engines right now.
Anyone harboring the delusion that search is in anything but its infancy, either doesn’t search much, or spends a lot of time chatting up robots, not humans.
I personally, can easily imagine how much better search would currently be, had Apple & Google been viciously competing in that area for the last decade...
Stepping off my soapbox now, but Christ, the haughty “I lack vision & think the garbage I use is top-notch, thus it bothers me if there’s any upcoming option or alternative that may make things better for everyone” attitude is SO pompous with no reason to be.
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Lets be real, if they do make a search engine/product, it'll probably be called Search.
I'd go further, if it is sufficiently neutral, it might become popular on non-Apple platforms as well.
Be good to see Apple search, by any name, being offered as an optional default search engine when starting to use an Android device.
Bring back Safari for PCs!
You are right, but people are more or less used to searching only with keywords instead of whole sentences. It will get to the next stage once people start using voice search more and more.
I've been using duckduckgo for about a year. The majority of searches for me just need to point me to wikipedia or the actual url. I think apple should just use their muscle to form partnerships with google's competitors and duckduckgo.
IMO, the alternative can't be as bad as the original (Bing). Apple should pull the bandaid quickly and try to help duckduckgo evolve quickly.
IMO, the alternative can't be as bad as the original (Bing). Apple should pull the bandaid quickly and try to help duckduckgo evolve quickly.
Chicken & egg, though...
people will use voice search more when/if the results are better! =)
They have time? Right? No need to rush anything into production, straight from development and skip the Q&A..
If Apple’s search would be the equivalent of their Maps/Translation offerings, I’m so in. I left Google Maps the day Apple launched Maps. A few early hiccups aside, it easily meets my needs. I want as little Google in my life as is possible. Search, most unfortunately, is the only thing I can’t seem to fully transition. Yet.
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I think Google needs some serious competition here, but they have such a head start and dominate this market that Apple would be throwing a lot of money and effort for little return, IMO.
What I would like to see them do is create a "meta-search" engine through Siri. A user performs a search but queries all major search engines based on the type of search (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wolfram Alpha, Yelp, etc) and produces and presents results that you couldn't get just using one search engine alone.
What I would like to see them do is create a "meta-search" engine through Siri. A user performs a search but queries all major search engines based on the type of search (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wolfram Alpha, Yelp, etc) and produces and presents results that you couldn't get just using one search engine alone.
The reason Google rose to prominence in the first place is their search engine has always been better than anybody else's by many, many kilometers (or, y'know, "miles" for the Metrically impaired) and so they earned every bit of their renown and their preeminent status.
That said, they have also done a lot of other things along the way — many of which have gotten them into legal trouble — so it's not like they can simply be blindly trusted.
I seriously doubt Apple is going to make a search system which is the equal of Google's. What any company does best is what their primary focus is on. Apple is not a search engine company; Google is.
That said, they have also done a lot of other things along the way — many of which have gotten them into legal trouble — so it's not like they can simply be blindly trusted.
I seriously doubt Apple is going to make a search system which is the equal of Google's. What any company does best is what their primary focus is on. Apple is not a search engine company; Google is.
Apple should just buy Duck Duck Go.
If Apple were serious in wanting to make their own search engine they would have bought up a smaller existing search engine company and modify it to make it their own. The biggest problem I have with Apple having their own search engine is that they will make it a two tier system Tier 1 will be for companies to pay to be in the top searches and Tier 2 non-paid. People will say Apple will not do this but they will, you watch.
How long were we talking about ARM based Macs....you're not gonna beat Google with couple of resumes off the street!
My guess would be it will just be Siri doing the search. Eventually AI/intelligent assistants will subsume search and you won't "search" you'll just ask your AI.