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Same as Maps etc. With their phones etc they are in the business of building a personal digital assistant. If they managed to couple search with a decent ontolo
by Angostura 6y ago
Same as Maps etc. With their phones etc they are in the business of building a personal digital assistant. If they managed to couple search with a decent ontological model of the world, they might be able to build something quite special. "Search" is one, rather simple application for the knowledge they are spidering.
This is not a new idea - it was pretty much Google's original mission statement, ISTR.
- nip180 6y ago“To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” is Google’s current mission statement.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThe difference is that Google funds that search engine by ads and the only reason Apple's engine would be worth using is to reduce the ads, which means raising the price of Apple's already expensive products, or giving away profit.
- Angostura 6y agoApple funds the search engine by selling more hardware product. It sells more hardware product by doing things well - including search