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A monopolist search provider paying off a potential competitor is arguably abusive of market power and looks much worse.
by votepaunchy 4y ago
A monopolist search provider paying off a potential competitor is arguably abusive of market power and looks much worse.
- luckylion 4y agoA "potential competitor" that has no product at all? That sounds like nonsense. They're paying for access, not to keep Apple out of search -- otherwise they'd pay a few extra billions on top so that users on Windows can't use that potential Apple search.
- graeme 4y agoApple has been expanding its search activities for years. Google absolutely has giving Apple an incentive not to compete as part of its aims
- luckylion 4y agoApple has a search bot, that, from how it interacts with the sites according to my logs, is a decade or so behind. I'm sure they could change that if they bothered, but I doubt they will. Why isn't Google paying Microsoft billions per quarter to stop Bing? Because Bing isn't a threat, and neither would Apple Search be. What is a threat is Apple making it hard for users on iOS to use Google Search. That's what the money is for, it's the rent they pay to have their little shop in the walled garden.
- realusername 4y agoWhere's that Apple search engine? I've never heard of it
- agnokapathetic 4y agobrowser auto complete (fantastic search term to click ranking data) and “Siri Suggested Websites” when you tap the “search” button on the Home Screen.
- graeme 4y ago> fantastic search term to click ranking data Could you expand on what you mean here?
- rafram 4y agoEntering a search term into the Safari URL bar will often pop up a webpage suggestion. It isn’t the first Google result. (Totally random example: try “Apache Spark tutorial.” Safari suggests a Databricks article, Google suggests something from Tutorialspoint.
- graeme 4y agoWhat I hadn’t understood was what you meant by ranking data?