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When you type anything in google, very often with very high accuracy suggests the correct spelling.
I believe the search engine data can go a long way in helping apple improve basic stuff like spell checker and auto correction.
I hope they do – Google is far, far, far too dominant in this space, and small-ish incumbents don't really stand a chance. If they keep up their privacy-friendly stance, this could really become something neat. I'd like for at least a little bit of competition in the gatekeeper-for-human-knowledge space.
For me, this is the big reason to celebrate this. A duopoly in search is at least marginally better than a monopoly. If Maps is any indication, people will bitch about it for a year or so, but after 2 years, 80%+ of users will be using it. Personally, I'd love if Apple put this out there ad-free. Getting clean, honest search results was why I switched to Google to start with. Google's current platform where almost al…
for me, if this follows the trajectory of apple maps, i will never have any reason to consider using apple search
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For me, this is the big reason to celebrate this. A duopoly in search is at least marginally better than a monopoly. If Maps is any indication, people will bitch about it for a year or so, but after 2 years, 80%+ of users will be using it. Personally, I'd love if Apple put this out there ad-free. Getting clean, honest search results was why I switched to Google to start with. Google's current platform where almost al…
Apple maps is probably a good example because outside the US it is still useless, 8 years later. I don't expect an Apple search engine to be any different.
That’s not to mention the desktop app - it’s a step change in performance versus Google Maps being a sluggish browser experience.
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Maybe they should build their own indexing backend and buy up DuckDuckGo for the frontend/user base/etc.
Apple doesn't buy companies for their user base. And while DDG's front end was innovative 20 years ago when Google did it, it's pretty basic (which I love) and shouldn't be too difficult to copy. The big challenge with search is the index.
Visualizations of results have improved so much in the last 10+ years, hopefully "visualization of search results" can also be advanced.
Scott Galloway talked about this in a recent Pivot Podcast. He predicts it will launch after the US DOJ announces anti-trust actions against Google. If they do it soon, Google will just point to Apple to say "We aren't the only game in town... this $2 trillion dollar company just launched a search engine on a few billion phones/tablets/PCs around the world." They have reason to wait.
On the other hand, you can't "click" on Android and suddenly switch to Android (or from Android to iOS) if Android this year becomes slightly better. It's designed to be a real uphill battle to switch (re-purchase all the media: apps, movies, shows, etc.), unhook imessage, transfer photos out of iCloud photos, etc. etc.
Wish Apple would release a GPU line. A man can dream right?
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Google Assistant really wow'ed me when, to settle a dinner table debate, I asked "Ok Google, on the TV show 'Friends', what was the name of the game show Joey hosted?" Before that, I'd never engaged with this device, which we got for free as part of a promo, and which sat on our bookshelf doing nothing. It truly amazes me that GA is able to give a relevant response here. First, Joey never hosts it, he just auditions…
Google is surprisingly good at answering questions like that. The rise of voice assistant really has pushed them into improving their knowledge graph and condensing search results into a single sentence. The conciseness has been getting even better too. I notice often it'll actually give a one word answer, followed by a 1-2 sentence context. For example, I asked "what kind of soap can I use on my cats" and it gave a…
But Apple's model is selling premium products and a search is a massive expense for apparently zero benefit to them (they wouldn't launch ads would they?). Plus their web results will probably be strictly censored and say goodbye to open web. It would be a nice dream though, google having some serious competition.
They are transitioning as iPhone sales stabilize. https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-services-busine... It’s not all about the hardware anymore.
How would apple monetize this search engine? I don’t completely trust Apple with doing ads as they already do plenty of self-dealing with their own ad system. If anything, they should jedison their ad product altogether.
Presumably the same way they monetize Siri.
[0] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/google-assistant/id1220976145
I hope they do – Google is far, far, far too dominant in this space, and small-ish incumbents don't really stand a chance. If they keep up their privacy-friendly stance, this could really become something neat. I'd like for at least a little bit of competition in the gatekeeper-for-human-knowledge space.