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Billh491 t1_j5vxyoe wrote

What the heck are you talking about Google pays Apple close to 20 billion a year to be the default search on the iPhone.

That is pure profit! Apple is not giving that up unless Bing offers more. And even then they will not switch because everyone wants Google search results.

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reallynothingmuch t1_j5wvt0z wrote

Or unless they think they can launch their own search engine that will make them more

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Evilhammy t1_j5xhrx3 wrote

they probably won’t make a legit search engine because of how much goes into that, but they’ve been putting tons of work into Spotlight being a mini search engine built into the home screen, and i could 100% see them making a larger push for that so that users don’t even need to enter safari for most simple queries

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p-rking t1_j5xprzi wrote

Doesn’t Spotlight use Google for the off device part of the search?

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Business-Parsnip-939 t1_j5y3jwm wrote

Don’t know why people downvoted but yes it does currently, actually used to use Bing, which in my opinion had better results

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A11Bionic t1_j614b0a wrote

Do you happen to know when Bing was stopped from being utilized?

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tetronic t1_j5xxibz wrote

Can’t wait to use apple search and get the results of “I can’t answer that right now”

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[deleted] t1_j5xj1ig wrote

That seems impossible since they have to compete against a >20 year old complex service

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Larsaf t1_j5z2iro wrote

A service that has been degrading in quality for at least a decade.

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EmergencySwitch t1_j5z477j wrote

Absolutely. I never use google without appending Reddit at the end since most searches results are for SEO optimized blogspam

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Larsaf t1_j5z6cob wrote

Or take the time range for search result. If there’s something on the news, and you think you remember almost the same thing being In the news before, you could just go and set the custom range To to a month or a year ago. Boom, up came what you were looking for.

Now you get 5 year old articles with no relation to what you were looking for, but they were recently reindexed and the keywords of course appear in the „now trending on this site“ side bar. And it should be trivial for Google to ignore the side bars (or adds), but they don‘t.

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SpaceForceAwakens t1_j5z8tw4 wrote

Or Pinterest, but you can’t see it without logging in. Fuck that noise.

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Married_with_Meeples t1_j5zr5nt wrote

I just told someone to search this way when looking up reviews and how-to instructions outside of YouTube. SEO optimization has absolutely ruined objective and informative search results. The blogs are horribly written and then make small changes regularly to get them to show up when people search with the year at the end.

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gordito_gr t1_j5y07jw wrote

What makes you think that they can compete with Google Search?

Bing has been trying forever

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reallynothingmuch t1_j5yhchm wrote

I didn’t say I think they can, I said they might think they can

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gordito_gr t1_j5yj071 wrote

>I said they might think they can

They know better, it's been a decade they been trying with maps and they still aint there.

There's no way anyone inside Apple thinks they can top Google Search in the near future.

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gordito_gr t1_j5y053h wrote

>because everyone wants Google search results

That wont be forever

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the_jak t1_j5yywai wrote

eh, i could take it or leave it these days. almost the entire 1st page is ads for shit im not looking for that are tangentially related to my query.

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Pigeon_Chess t1_j5xtdoe wrote

I use bing on my iPhone because private relay bricks google search

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Larsaf t1_j5z3qpb wrote

It’s almost like someone at Google is trying to make Apple look bad. But no, only Apple has such secret plans.

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Delicious_One_7887 t1_j6m827h wrote

google would wanna make their top customer of cloud storage look bad? Well google is an idiot then.

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Sm0g3R t1_j5y06p9 wrote

Well I mean the article still makes sense to some degree. Most of the things now widely accepted as the norm for both OSes, like scrolling, zooming, or even the current way to get back to your homescreen with edge-to-edge screens (homebar) were invented or at least first widely implemented by Apple...

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Friendly-Rock3226 t1_j5wpfkz wrote

Not true. People are tired of Google following them & keeping records so essentially if you use Google you have no privacy.

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squareswordfish t1_j5wzza7 wrote

With “people” do you mean a small subset of the population that is particularly prone to voicing their thoughts and frequents the same spaces as you?

Because most people don’t care about any of that.

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ItsTylerBrenda t1_j5wxrad wrote

This whole thing reminds me that apple was rumored to be working on their own search engine. I wonder if that has been the master plan all along. Take the 20b from google, use it to create your own search engine, then use software update to set it as the default for all 1.2b apple devices.

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ShaderzXC t1_j5x0jdf wrote

If spotlight is any indication of how it’s going it will be Apples biggest failure yet. Never had such displeasure using an Apple service or feature

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WinterInfamous7213 t1_j5xhvv7 wrote

Yet everybody is happy to use google maps and google search. Google isn’t going anywhere in the close future, they pretty much have a monopoly at this point.

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mgc418 t1_j5z7yrh wrote

You should rephrase that to: essentialy if you use a smartphone you have no privacy. Because Google isn’t the only one sucking up all your information.

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m945050 t1_j5zho19 wrote

Between Google, Facebook and the government privacy ceased to exist long before Y2K.

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Delicious_One_7887 t1_j6m8phz wrote

So basically if you open a browser and it loads google and you search on it, you have no privacy. That means millions of people around the world have no privacy and if they don’t why isn’t their info spread all over the world?

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-im-just-vibing- t1_j5w8p44 wrote

i am buying a pixel if apple change to bing

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WorldCupMexicanChile t1_j5wejck wrote

Lol you literally go to settings and change it back. This mofo would divorce a person if she decides to eat an onion ring.

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-im-just-vibing- t1_j5wp9my wrote

do you not understand jokes? you are such an idiot honestly

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Pt_Zero t1_j5wpls2 wrote

It wasn’t a particularly funny joke, bud…

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badDNA t1_j5wtxus wrote

Yea he just sounded like a douche

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-im-just-vibing- t1_j5x44ev wrote

i don’t care, bud

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HAND_HOOK_CAR_DOOR t1_j5xplr8 wrote

Username does not check out

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-im-just-vibing- t1_j5xrf0f wrote

it checks out when i’m not being insulted by people, is that not fair enough?

judging by the downvotes, i guess not. i’ll keep in mind next time to be really nice and friendly when someone attacks me for no reason and calls me a motherfucker.

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Pt_Zero t1_j5yj8hn wrote

It’s the internet. You’re gonna need a little bit thicker skin than that if you’re going to tell unfunny “jokes” around here. No one’s even being particularly mean or anything and you turned it up to 11 and started calling people idiots. I’m guessing you’re a spoiled 14 year old who’s just trying to sound like a badass. If not, you act like you’re 14 and you should probably work on that.

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-im-just-vibing- t1_j5yk0aw wrote

mate this is a subreddit for iphones, there’s nothing controversial, there’s no reason for me to be insulted. you’re saying i’m the one who started this, i didn’t. random guy replies to my joke, calls me a motherfucker, and says that i’d divorce someone if they ate an onion ring. the joke was terrible and barely made sense, but anyway. i was attacked first for no reason at all, this guy evidently just needed to vent some anger towards random people on the internet. not everyone knows that you can change your default internet browser.

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