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I'm honestly not seeing the difference you're drawing between "web searches" and "instant suggestions". If I type some characters into a search box, and the ph
by Doctor_Fegg 5y ago
I'm honestly not seeing the difference you're drawing between "web searches" and "instant suggestions".
If I type some characters into a search box, and the phone displays the title and domain of a website that it thinks I might be looking for, that counts as a "web search" to me. iOS Safari does that using an Apple-powered web index.
But whatever.
- Closi 5y agoThe difference is the index size and generality for me - for instance I can search "lkasdjfai" in Google and it will show me the one time that someone once said that on Flickr. Siri only needs to return a result when it thinks its got a worthwhile result to show, it won't search all documents to find the phrase I want (and returns nothing if I search lkasdjfai, and falls back to Google results). It never even says "siri found no matches for lkasdjfai". I can't use Siri to search for my cousin for instance (I just tried) but with Google he comes up straight away. So for me, a web search is when you are searching any arbitrary phrase and bringing back results for any query, where instant suggestions is an optional response when you think you have a good result.
- sosborn 5y agoYou should search "lkasdjfai" now :)