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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by d2wa on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:24PM (#22609135)
The Apple Maps service doesn’t have a web presence, so they’re not even trying to compete with Google Maps on the web. A map service is objectively more useful than a promotional page trying to sell iOS devices with a built-in Maps app.
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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by taffer on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:42PM (#22609390)
> The Apple Maps service doesn’t have a web presence

It kind of has: https://maps.apple.com/place?address=San%20Francisco

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by d2wa on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:50PM (#22609496)
No, it doesn’t: https://maps.apple.com/robots.txt
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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by wolco on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:27AM (#22613625)
The robot file doesn't want you scraping actual locations.

So it does have a way of accessing the maps over the web. But because they dis-allow locations they don't compete with google for location based queries.

Everyone is wrong or right, depending on if your glass is half full or empty.

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Re:Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Veri... by stronglikedan on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:50PM (#22610255)
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [0]

Replace "maps" with the names of any competing products from both companies with a web presence that can be linked to in search results, if you want to genuinely rebut the point.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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