Yahoo Wants to Be Apple’s Default iOS Search Engine

[FantasyX]

Yahoo is simply a mess, I'll stick with Google thanks.

 

[C DM]

Dear Yahoo.

We don't like you, we use Google.

And you still can--it's just a simple setting that can be changed by anyone, even today.

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god no!
Their weather feed, which we already have in IOS7 as the weather app, is awful. I've had it be 20+ degrees off from what is actually happening outside.
And I live less than 20 miles from Yahoo HQ. Can't imagine how bad the weather app is for folks in the rest of the world.
Also having been a longtime yahoo email user, that has gone to pot as well. They can't even keep blatant spam (CIALIS! INCRAESE PENIS SIZE!) out of my inbox.
Yahoo is going down the tubes, just let it die!

Weather data comes from Weather Underground/The Weather Channel.

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Please no. The only thing Yahoo has done right in the past decade is their weather app interface.

Still angry that Flickr has become an unmitigated disaster.

Praying Marissa doesn't test her design chops on tumblr.

Brand new redesigned major version of the Flicker iOS app was just released it seems.

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Yahoo sports?!

What about it?

 

[Kaspersky]

People in Samsung was like...

 

[memcpy]

You have no idea.

Ah, I see Best of luck.

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Yeah, because the other search engines like Google or Bing don't have a toolbar and/or don't try to get you to install it in various ways and/or don't track what you do with it?

Bing also does that. Like half the things you install in Windows try to sneak the Bing toolbar into the installation. Google doesn't do that.

 

[C DM]

Ah, I see Best of luck.

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Bing also does that. Like half the things you install in Windows try to sneak the Bing toolbar into the installation. Google doesn't do that.

Pretty sure I've seen some Google things in the past offer to download/install the toolbar or something along those lines. These days I definitely see Chrome being offered or almost bundled with a bunch of things, all at Google's agreement I'm sure, so that's about the same. They all do it basically.

 

[jonyive4]

Not if you start from scratch...do you really want Google in your life that much?

do you really hate google that much?

 

[Tech198]

nooo..

if Yahoo does become the default, there better be an option to change it.. Otherwise i'm moving to Chrome...

Google's used by many more people anyway.... and i think the only reason for this is Yahoo, and MS knows this..

 

[Oletros]

In 2010, Apple had 0 useful services. Today, those services are very close to surpass (some already did) everything google can offer, be it in quality or usage.

What are you talking about?

 

[bobdobalina]

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[pedromcm.pm]

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about iCloud and the way everything integrates and (almost) always work for 500 million users, when in 2010 we had almost nothing for less than 200 million users.

imessage
maps
itunes match
iwork integration
pro apps integration
siri
icloud mail
ibooks
etc.

You get the point. That was a huge change. Google is the same Google it was, basically.

 

[Oletros]

I'm talking about iCloud and the way everything integrates and (almost) always work for 500 million users, when in 2010 we had almost nothing for less than 200 million users.

imessage
maps
itunes match
iwork integration
pro apps integration
siri
icloud mail
ibooks
etc.

You get the point. That was a huge change. Google is the same Google it was, basically.

Google the same basically?

Since 2010, following your list:

Hangouts
Play Music
Google Now
Play Books
etc.

 

[pedromcm.pm]

Google the same basically?

Since 2010, following your list:

Hangouts
Play Music
Google Now
Play Books
etc.

Play Music and Play Books are small drops in the ocean compared with iTunes and iBooks. Hangouts is nothing compared with the brilliance of iMessage.

Google Now is better than Siri, but it is about lots of services. Apple is catching up very fast and in most cases left Google in the dust. Consider the user base growth that Apple had and that in 2007 they only sold 5 million Macs per year, and maybe 15 million iPods. Compare that Apple with the Apple of today and the volume involved.

Than there's stuff like Passbook, etc.

Clearly you get my point. Even if you prefer Google's services (they are awesome) you can't deny it: Apple is going up very fast.

A search engine is coming closer and closer.

 

[Oletros]

Play Music and Play Books are small drops in the ocean compared with iTunes and iBooks. Hangouts is nothing compared with the brilliance of iMessage.

Google Now is better than Siri, but it is about lots of services. Apple is catching up very fast and in most cases left Google in the dust. Consider the user base growth that Apple had and that in 2007 they only sold 5 million Macs per year, and maybe 15 million iPods. Compare that Apple with the Apple of today and the volume involved.

Than there's stuff like Passbook, etc.

Clearly you get my point. Even if you prefer Google's services (they are awesome) you can't deny it: Apple is going up very fast.

Clearly, I get what you say, anything Apple does is brilliant. Cya

 

[pedromcm.pm]

Clearly, I get what you say, anything Apple does is brilliant. Cya

Maybe you can't read. I never said that, I even said that Google's services are awesome and Google now is better than siri.

But yeah, Apple is going up much faster and that's not open for debate.

 

[C DM]

nooo..



if Yahoo does become the default, there better be an option to change it.. Otherwise i'm moving to Chrome...



Google's used by many more people anyway.... and i think the only reason for this is Yahoo, and MS knows this..

The option to change is already there even today.

 

[laryenhilllvr]

Eff yahoo weather!!! It's a crime and a shame the almanac, which was printed...a YEAR ago has a better track record than a fluid app that predicts the weather up to 5 days out.

How about this apple...don't waste your money on yahoo, get the people who work on the almanacs to do your weather and stick with Google (yes, google) as your search engine.

Ps. I don't even use Siri because her results come from bing which, for me, are rather asinine and useless.

 

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Yahoo is working on two internal projects to optimize its mobile search and monetization in order to convince Apple to make Yahoo the default search engine on iOS reports Re/code.

The WSJ reported last year that Apple and Yahoo had been in discussions of how to integrate Yahoo's services more prominently in iOS, beyond powering the Weather and Stocks apps.

The report says Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is preparing detailed presentations to present to Apple executives showing what its new mobile search product could look like. There are a pair of internal projects, code-named "Fast Break" and "Curveball", that are part of Yahoo's redesign of its mobile search engine.
Currently, Yahoo and Microsoft are in the midst of a 10-year search and advertising partnership, something Mayer is trying to get out of. At the same time, Microsoft's Bing provides the backend for Apple's Siri web search feature. Google is the default search engine in the Safari iOS browser, with Yahoo and Bing available as user-selectable options. Apple already replaced Google's Maps app with its own mapping application as default.

According to the Re/code report, a new and expanded agreement between Apple and Yahoo is not imminent -- Apple has yet to be pitched on the new products. Instead, it's part of a longer term play to bring the two companies closer together.

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They should make encrypted.google.com the default! Anything but Yahoo! Even Bing is OK.

 

[C DM]

They should make encrypted.google.com the default! Anything but Yahoo! Even Bing is OK.

Yahoo! uses Bing for search...so, yeah.

 

[candle]

I have never had great success in searching for anything with Yahoo...

 

[Naimfan]

Heck, why not DuckDuckGoose?

 

[Quu]

But we don't believe Yahoo is up to the task

Then set your default search provider to something else?

Lets face it, Google having a monopoly does us a disservice. Competition is good.

Removing them as the default (but not disabling your ability to change them back) is a good thing.

 

[C DM]

I have never had great success in searching for anything with Yahoo...

That is definitely not an exaggeration at all.

 

[bnekic]

I'd be fine with that, I use Yahoo now anyway. Apple should really buy Yahoo, I think that would be a great acquisition.

 

[Ezhik]

Apple just needs to buy Yahoo, sever its ties with Microsoft/Bing, and use the existing team to create its own search engine.

Because that worked so well with Maps, right?
It will actually be exactly as bad as maps - might work fine for English-speaking users, but other languages will be a complete disaster.

It's like that with Bing for me - while it's actually not that bad with English searches, it is really, really, REALLY awful with my Russian searches.

 

[rtr1985]

How does a small/simple thing like who the default search provider in Safari is--a setting that can easily be changed by anyone too--suddenly even come close to being something about changing the experience of the iPhone or anything like that.

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