Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims

Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by Angostura on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:55AM (#24918735)

Same as Maps etc. With their phones etc they are in the business of building a personal digital assistant. If they managed to couple search with a decent ontological model of the world, they might be able to build something quite special. "Search" is one, rather simple application for the knowledge they are spidering.

This is not a new idea - it was pretty much Google's original mission statement, ISTR.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by nip180 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:07AM (#24918859)

“To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” is Google’s current mission statement.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by srtjstjsj on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:21AM (#24919770)

The difference is that Google funds that search engine by ads and the only reason Apple's engine would be worth using is to reduce the ads, which means raising the price of Apple's already expensive products, or giving away profit.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by Angostura on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:24PM (#24926093)

Apple funds the search engine by selling more hardware product. It sells more hardware product by doing things well - including search

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