Apple is making a smart move by not wanting to depend on anyone else.
Results may suck in the beginning, but well, competing in hard stuff is hard, this is another apple maps. Hopefully they won't get bashed so hard since this is not so user facing.
Apple is making a smart move by not wanting to depend on anyone else.
That's one way of looking at it. A different one would be that the wealthiest company in the world could work with practically anyone and get a better product than they could build themselves more quickly with more features. The idea that they have to do everything in-house to get the best is paranoid and stupid.
For example, rather than build AppleBot, why couldn't they pump a few billion into DuckDuckGo to get use of DuckDuckBot? Or fund archive.org to access their index? Or buy in to commoncrawl.org?
It would be possible for Apple to use its fortune to benefit both their customers and the world. Google and Bing are not the only options.
They could, and they have done it in the past, even with google. But if they can afford it, why depend on anyone else?
I'm pretty sure they're not interested in quickly, or more features. Their users can still use other products (and lets be honest, most products WANT to be on the apple platforms), but at least this way they make sure their users aren't left stranded if those products cease to exist and/or are not updated. Remember the maps situation?
They are making sure their users have core features without having to depend on others' good will.
They could buy another company, sure, but I wouldn't count on DDG being ready to sell out, and besides, getting new people to work on their new thing is probably easier/better organisation-wise than to on-board a different company/organisation with a lot of baggage.
As far as I know DuckDuckGo has mostly been using Yandex's results lately. DuckDuckBot is a real thing (and has been for a long time), but it doesn't do much except power their anti-spam signals.
I am hoping this will change the tide and trend on "Considering Google alone as the master in search". Pretty positive apple engineer will come up with good algorithms to keep them in par.
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Apple is making a smart move by not wanting to depend on anyone else.
Results may suck in the beginning, but well, competing in hard stuff is hard, this is another apple maps. Hopefully they won't get bashed so hard since this is not so user facing.
Apple is making a smart move by not wanting to depend on anyone else.
That's one way of looking at it. A different one would be that the wealthiest company in the world could work with practically anyone and get a better product than they could build themselves more quickly with more features. The idea that they have to do everything in-house to get the best is paranoid and stupid.
For example, rather than build AppleBot, why couldn't they pump a few billion into DuckDuckGo to get use of DuckDuckBot? Or fund archive.org to access their index? Or buy in to commoncrawl.org?
It would be possible for Apple to use its fortune to benefit both their customers and the world. Google and Bing are not the only options.
They could, and they have done it in the past, even with google. But if they can afford it, why depend on anyone else?
I'm pretty sure they're not interested in quickly, or more features. Their users can still use other products (and lets be honest, most products WANT to be on the apple platforms), but at least this way they make sure their users aren't left stranded if those products cease to exist and/or are not updated. Remember the maps situation?
They are making sure their users have core features without having to depend on others' good will.
They could buy another company, sure, but I wouldn't count on DDG being ready to sell out, and besides, getting new people to work on their new thing is probably easier/better organisation-wise than to on-board a different company/organisation with a lot of baggage.
DDG would be a perfect fit for Apple, IMHO, as long as they don't kill the company and leave them some autonomy.
Is DuckDuckBot for real? While I'm sure they are diversifying, DDG's results are still based on Bing.
As far as I know DuckDuckGo has mostly been using Yandex's results lately. DuckDuckBot is a real thing (and has been for a long time), but it doesn't do much except power their anti-spam signals.
I am hoping this will change the tide and trend on "Considering Google alone as the master in search". Pretty positive apple engineer will come up with good algorithms to keep them in par.