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An apple search engine oh man I wonder what that would be like "To list your site on Apple please submit your DUNS number and pay the $100 annual fee?"
by fareesh 4y ago
An apple search engine oh man I wonder what that would be like
"To list your site on Apple please submit your DUNS number and pay the $100 annual fee?"
- Spivak 4y agoAn Apple search engine would require that people who want to be listed submit to the Web Search Guidelines which would require things like "respecting DNT", "allowing users to log in with Apple if they offer social login", "supporting Apple Pay", "no spamming", "no rehosting scraped content", and collect a 30% commission on purchases made with their special "products" results. It would be privacy first, collect no information about a user's searches but generate a ranking on a generic index based on an on-device/in-browser ML model. Apple would spend comparably little effort making sense of the messy content on random websites and instead make websites provide a curated, easily digestible format to them. And sites would bend the knee to access iPhone users. Never before would you see so many people on Reddit/HN pissed off at how successful it is.
- scarface74 4y agoI can’t find it for the life of me now. But someone did create a web interface to Apple’s “search engine”. It’s used in different parts of the interface. https://cmitsolutions.com/hartford/apples-web-crawler-applebot/ https://cmitsolutions.com/hartford/apples-web-crawler-appleb... On the other hand, Apple has been operating a podcast indexer for over 15 years that anyone can submit podcast RSS feeds and has had a fully documented API for searching its index the entire time. Any third party client can use it. No, Apple never stores the audio on its servers unlike Spotify.