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I agree, Apple has a lot of efforts going on right now, I doubt they want to tackle Web Based Search (ala Google)... though it's just one position.

• serve_yay 12y ago
  Sure would be fun to watch, though.
• wlesieutre 12y ago
  If anything, web search would be counterproductive for them. Google likes search because you see ads on search results then go to other pages and see more ads. Apple doesn't have that incentive; if anything they want to keep you in the App Store's curated experiences. Why send someone to an Open Street Maps website instead of one of the various OSM clients on iOS where you can get extra features via in-app-purchase?
  • 0x0 12y ago
    Maybe they actually just want their end users to have a great web search experience? They added DuckDuckGo as an option to their OSes recently and I'm sure they would be happy to not feed any more traffic to Google than strictly necessary. It could benefit Siri making the built in web search more intelligent instead of leveraging a 3rd party API who might even charge for access since there's no ads. It might even sell more devices if they make it an Apple device exclusive service, or at least as a gateway to lure new customers kinda like the online versions of icloud/pages/numbers/keynote.
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