Think the summary from what I've read the past few days - It's established applebot is already used for Siri, but there is no general web search - Much commen

Think the summary from what I've read the past few days - It's established applebot is already used for Siri, but there is no general web search - Much commentary diverts to how poor Apple maps (is?) was. - Google pay apple a handsome amount of money to be the default search engine on Apple devices - If Apple were no longer to accept that payment, about 80% of people would still use Google anyway, given a choice [0] - Googles high earnings per search means they can offer more than any other search engine, like Bing, DDG et al - People would generally like more competition in the search space and Apple has the means to do it - Anecdotally, there isn't a drop in replacement for a search default other than Google that would meet the quality requirements for end users. In this case, the only other alternative would be an Apple search engine. - As per recent articles, there does seem to be more activity from Apple wrt applebot crawling and hiring [0] https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-research/ https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-research/