Apple switches from Bing to Google as default search platform in Siri, iOS Search, and Mac...
Apple is switching from Microsoft's Bing to Google as the default Web search provider for Siri, iOS Search, and Spotlight on the Mac, the company announced on Monday.
"Switching to Google as the web search provider for Siri, Search within iOS and Spotlight on Mac will allow these services to have a consistent web search experience with the default in Safari," the company said in a statement to TechCrunch. The company insisted that it has "strong relationships" with both Microsoft and Google.
While video results will point to Google's YouTube, searches for Web images will still pull from Bing. Apple has sometimes been criticized for defaulting to Bing outside of Safari, since Google is significantly more popular, but image search is a particular speciality of Microsoft's search engine.
The news comes in tandem with the launch of macOS High Sierra. The free update will make a number of enhancements to apps and underlying frameworks, including support for the Apple File System, H.265 video, and Metal 2 rendering.
The company is also clamping down on cookie-based user tracking, to the consternation of many parties in the advertising industry.
"Switching to Google as the web search provider for Siri, Search within iOS and Spotlight on Mac will allow these services to have a consistent web search experience with the default in Safari," the company said in a statement to TechCrunch. The company insisted that it has "strong relationships" with both Microsoft and Google.
While video results will point to Google's YouTube, searches for Web images will still pull from Bing. Apple has sometimes been criticized for defaulting to Bing outside of Safari, since Google is significantly more popular, but image search is a particular speciality of Microsoft's search engine.
The news comes in tandem with the launch of macOS High Sierra. The free update will make a number of enhancements to apps and underlying frameworks, including support for the Apple File System, H.265 video, and Metal 2 rendering.
The company is also clamping down on cookie-based user tracking, to the consternation of many parties in the advertising industry.
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wonder what the final price tag Google have to pony up to secure the main position.
Does anyone know if you can change the default search on Andriod phones?
https://www.greenbot.com/article/2879150/how-to-change-the-default-search-engine-in-android.html
Here's one oddity that iOs users might not expect: If you change the search default in Safari you might assume that it would also change for Siri and Spotlight. Unless something changes that is not the case. Google will remain the Siri and Spotlight default even if you prefer to use DuckDuckGo for example and have it set as your default. But you can specify a provider by command each time you invoke a Siri web search.
and who would use this other than Apple users? Really? Then they would have to contend with China and other regimes like that. How would they manage the privacy concerns? What about advertising? They would have to have that for participating companies, and websites.
it would be a nightmare for them.
There was an analyst mentioned here at AI in an article guessing that Google might have to pay as much as $3B to secure rights. There was no one claiming it as fact to the best of my knowledge.
What no quotes and links to back that 'Huh??' up from your overlords?
Since I've been reading yours for several years as well I realize that sincerity is not always your goal, with trolling seemingly more important at times. Carry on.