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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by 0xbear on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:03AM (#15336322)
I believe they initially used Google as their backend. Don't quote me on that though. One thing I know for sure is their search is not really provided by them.
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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by randkyp on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:09AM (#15336350)
I thought their search was powered by Yahoo's BOSS service combined with their own crawler.
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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by kobeya on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:04AM (#15336332)
They’ve always had their own backend.
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