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This comes up every few years, especially with facts like them owning siri.com and running the AppleBot crawler already. 2015: https://searchengineland.com/app
by dewey 6y ago
This comes up every few years, especially with facts like them owning siri.com and running the AppleBot crawler already.
2015: https://searchengineland.com/apple-confirms-their-web-crawler-applebot-220423 https://searchengineland.com/apple-confirms-their-web-crawle...
It would be nice to have a more private search engine but with Apple's track record of building web services I'm not so optimistic.
- samename 6y agoDDG and Startpage are private search engines, why do you believe Apple’s would be more private than theirs?
- dewey 6y agoI think there's space for more than two private search engines. The difference would be that it would be tightly integrated into the system and probably the default search engine in Safari which comes with an important and huge mobile market share that DDG / Startpage don't have. Most people that are not frequenting HN probably don't even know what DDG or Startpage are because they just use the defaults.