Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Mac Spotlight

Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:37AM (#15336657)

Bing/Yahoo/Yandex but the point that Apple is in the position DDG is in to protect user's privacy if they choose to with Siri/Spotlight etc. They can take the search from the phone, strip it of identifying information and forward it to Google then return the results they get back.

You can test that they are doing that by searching for something directly on Google, and then searching for it on Siri. If the results page differ, there is a chance that Siri is not passing along state information to Google.

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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by Kiro on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:30AM (#15336855)

Please see the part of the comment I quoted. My reply wasn't about privacy. The parent thinks that buying DDG would give Apple full control of the user experience, but is probably unaware of the fact that they wouldn't be in control at all since it's Bing/Yahoo/Yandex providing the actual results.

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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:37PM (#15340867)

I don't understand your comment.

Search engine providers provide results as json page without decoration. Everything about the user experience is controlled by the code converting that json into display. This is what DDG does.

Everything about the user experience is controlled by the 'front end' which is making a call to the search engine service on its 'back end'.

The only difference here is how much tracking/PII is part of the request that is sent to the search engine. I was saying you can test that by comparing Siri results with those obtained through a web browser which is forwarding cookies full of PII and tracking information.

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