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Does anybody believe Apple is making money off this? Redirecting websites to competitors.
by ljcus10 6y ago
Does anybody believe Apple is making money off this? Redirecting websites to competitors.
- samirelanduk 6y agoProbably not tbh - the cost/benefit of getting such small amounts of money versus enormous reputational damage is not remotely worth it.
- ljcus10 6y agoMy question is can they bid on it behind the scenes like a keyword. Siri suggestions must have some type of revenue.
- prawn 6y agoIt would be a poorly considered algorithm rather than some bidding situation. No sane person would build this intentionally. The big companies have too much to lose especially.
- jessaustin 6y agoBasically, this is Google's entire business: getting paid to send us where someone else wants us to go. Google are "big". Why wouldn't Apple want in on this action?
- Carpetsmoker 6y agoSponsored search results are marked as such in the Google results, it's nothing like the automagic redirect Safari is showing here.
- dannyw 6y agoApple uses this to promote first party services like Apple Music, Apple News, and App Store. All of these generate revenue for Apple. If they land on Google, then Google would be promoting YouTube Music, Google News, etc, which is lost revenue for Apple.
- classics2 6y agoIf it was an autocomplete thing all sorts of words entered would be generating false hits. These are super specific high value search terms. Apple is most definitely being paid to do this.
- classics2 6y agoGuccc -> Gucci.com Gucce -> Gucci.com Pradd -> Prada.com Praada -> Prada.com Low value target words just seem to go directly to google searches though.
- stock_toaster 6y agoWouldn't it be google doing it if it is set as the web search engine?
- om2 6y agoIt's just a bug. We could use bug reports of this because it doesn't seem to reproduce for everyone.