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Robert Scoble posted a bunch of items around what to expect from the Apple WWDC (aka World Wide Developer Conference) that is happening Monday, June 6th. Robert said a bunch of things but specific to search he said "and a new search engine is coming too."
Robert posted this on Twitter saying "Oh, and a new search engine is coming too. Will Siri finally get "smart?" Hmmm." Here is that tweet:
Oh, and a new search engine is coming too. Will Siri finally get "smart?" Hmmm.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) May 28, 2022
This was obviously a minor point from Robert, Robert is way more into what to expect regarding augmented realty (AR) from Apple. Maybe we will soon see Apple Glasses?
We covered how Apple has been slowly showing signs of getting into web search over the years. In 2014, yes, 8-years ago, we saw signs of an Apple Spider - Applebot. Then in 2015 AppleBot sightings and Apple listing their own search ranking factors and AppleBot user agent details. They also mention that when John Giannandrea went from Google to Apple in 2018.
The big question is, what does this mean? Will it just mean Siri will get better at answering questions or will Apple be crawling and indexing the web in a bigger way? Then, do you think Apple can compete with Google or Microsoft Bing and if so, will they be able to take away share from Google?
As an FYI, Google paid Apple in 2021 $15 billion to be the default search engine on Apple Safari. It is obviously super valuable to Google to have control over Apple Search.
Hat tip:
Based on a tweet from @Scobleizer (who says it's not a guess, he's heard it from many places...) -> Apple is expected to tease a *new search engine* connected to Siri at WWDC 2022 on 6/8 https://t.co/JUKL6buXhY pic.twitter.com/MW7ueyccoo
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) May 30, 2022
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Comments:
John A. User
05/31/2022 06:15 pm
Its going to be a Google clone, content appropriation, images, style, everything. The results may differ but the look and feel will be same. It'll become the default search engine for all new Apple phones + computers going forward. Don't like their metric, user-interaction, means number one will always stay number one.
malzeri83
05/31/2022 07:53 pm
It is interesting to see giants competition. Let us see it in reality.
Elinotes
06/01/2022 01:28 am
only for apple user my be
Matthew Marley
06/01/2022 09:50 am
Scoble also told us we were getting a transparent iPhone so take what he says witha pinch of salts....
Some old one
06/01/2022 11:13 am
A filtered walled apple garden search? Would be funny! :)
dbjungle
06/02/2022 08:35 am
I just want them to allow other browser engines in iOS. This is one of many things holding the platform back.
Umer Idrisi
06/02/2022 11:03 am
Searchoye.com is already there for Pakistanis 🤗
Pierre Zarokian
06/03/2022 05:39 pm
We need this. Google is a monopoly.
Md. Iqbal
06/04/2022 07:22 pm
We can't wait for it. Please, do.
Larry Gottheimer
06/05/2022 12:40 pm
Long overdue...Apple is the only company that can really compete with Google in this sphere, but will it be more of the same or is the point to weaken Google's monopoly? Anything is better than what we have now
Jezz
06/07/2022 02:58 am
We do need this but not from Apple. Smaller fish are needed to jump in here, Apple just want to be the next monopoly.