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Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by lemoncucumber »

jakebasile wrote: post #2

I really wish they'd let me set Siri to search DuckDuckGo.

I could almost see Apple buying DuckDuckGo, given that a) Apple cares about their users' privacy, and b) Apple cares about having control over the entire user experience. DuckDuckGo would fit right in with both of those core pieces of Apple (no pun intended).

I don't think it'll actually happen, but it doesn't seem too far-fetched.

Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by 0xbear »

lemoncucumber wrote: post #4
jakebasile wrote: post #2

I really wish they'd let me set Siri to search DuckDuckGo.

I could almost see Apple buying DuckDuckGo, given that a) Apple cares about their users' privacy, and b) Apple cares about having control over the entire user experience. DuckDuckGo would fit right in with both of those core pieces of Apple (no pun intended). I don't think it'll actually happen, but it doesn't seem too far-fetched.

That wouldn't make any sense given that DDG is thin UX veneer around Bing, and it doesn't maintain its own index.

Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by beaner »

lemoncucumber wrote: post #4
jakebasile wrote: post #2

I really wish they'd let me set Siri to search DuckDuckGo.

I could almost see Apple buying DuckDuckGo, given that a) Apple cares about their users' privacy, and b) Apple cares about having control over the entire user experience. DuckDuckGo would fit right in with both of those core pieces of Apple (no pun intended). I don't think it'll actually happen, but it doesn't seem too far-fetched.

Apple doesn't care about it's users' privacy. It only ever started making a big deal about privacy when people started criticizing Google for hoarding too much personal info and using it to target ads, which people think is evil. Apple doesn't do these things (it's not Apple's business model), so they began heavily marketing "privacy" as something you'd get from them and not the competition. They make sort of okay attempts at privacy, but since they don't collect a lot, they don't need to do a lot, and many of the things they have done have been weak, easily exploitable, or hacked. "Privacy" for Apple is a marketing term like "unbelievable," "magic," and "revolutionary."

Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by xbmcuser »

aeleos wrote: post #3

I wonder how this will work with apples recent fight against online advertisers. If google does track users but it is all anonymous from the advertisers perspective, does that mean Apple is okay with it?

Maybe thats the reason they went back with Google now they didnt want Google to have apple customer data for competitive reason but now that they have a system in place to block that they have gone with the best search engine.

Re: Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

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Post by andy_ppp »

grzm wrote: post #8
sidcool wrote: post #6

Wonder how much Google paid them.

$3 billion is the number in the article.

With the amount of data Apple has from Siri I’m constantly surprised they don’t at least have a stab at building a search engine, possibly one with very fine grained privacy/accuracy controls.
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