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I read about this in a couple of places. I guess they're now the default search engine on Firefox.
Some of the Apple fans at Mac rumors are skeptical, but I was thinking about it, and I wonder if Apple wouldn't take the opportunity to get into the search game?
Maybe some kind of deal where apple pays something like $5 billion, gets a 20% stake in Yahoo, rebrands Yahoo's search engine as Apple (or Spotlight) search, and sends a huge team of engineers and programmers to Yahoo to improve the search engine and integrate it into OS X and iOS.
I don't think they'll ever have better search than google, but Apple Maps is good enough that I'll use it if it's more convenient (i.e. navigate to a contact in my phone or from an address link in Safari.) I think Apple could get the search good enough that people won't bother changing the default search engine.
Otherwise, it's just very hard for me to imagine it happening...
Some of the Apple fans at Mac rumors are skeptical, but I was thinking about it, and I wonder if Apple wouldn't take the opportunity to get into the search game?
Maybe some kind of deal where apple pays something like $5 billion, gets a 20% stake in Yahoo, rebrands Yahoo's search engine as Apple (or Spotlight) search, and sends a huge team of engineers and programmers to Yahoo to improve the search engine and integrate it into OS X and iOS.
I don't think they'll ever have better search than google, but Apple Maps is good enough that I'll use it if it's more convenient (i.e. navigate to a contact in my phone or from an address link in Safari.) I think Apple could get the search good enough that people won't bother changing the default search engine.
Otherwise, it's just very hard for me to imagine it happening...
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