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Apple is switching the default provider of its web searches from Siri, Search inside iOS (formerly called Spotlight) and Spotlight on the Mac. So, for instance, if Siri falls back to a web search on iOS when you ask it a question, you're now going to get Google results instead of Bing. Updated below with a statement from Microsoft.
Consistency is Apple's main motivation given for switching the results from Microsoft's Bing to Google in these cases. Safari on Mac and iOS already currently use Google search as the default provider, thanks to a deal worth billions to Apple (and Google) over the last decade. This change will now mirror those results when Siri, the iOS Search bar or Spotlight is used.
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Apple Switches from Bing to Google for Siri Web Search Results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac
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(Score: 1, Troll) by bradley13 on Wednesday September 27 2017, @08:12AM (4 children)
It's because Google's results are so neutral [unz.com]. Certainly not influenced by SJW politics. Not that Bing is any better: On the picture page, looking at only individual pictures, 11 of the top 15 inventors are black.
Don't misunderstand: I'm sure that there have been top black inventors in the US. However, rewriting history to suit political ends is not just wrong, it's evil. He who controls the past, controls the future. [netnames.com]
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:31PM (2 children)
"Neutrality" had nothing to do with Apple's choice.
It was the "consistency" that did it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:35PM (1 child)
Sure the results are biased, but they are always biased the same way.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:55PM
The bias doesn't matter when you need to solve programming problems, variability does.
E.g. go and show TMB this other variant of "Dick ni99ers", see how happy he will be to waste some more effort in beefing up his lameness filter... again.
(grin - now, mod me +Informative, I just provided another example for TMB to protect us against... we wouldn't want to be terrorized by those two words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:58PM
Aren't Google's results largely the result of an algorithm?
See: Conservapedia.
Conservapedia [wikipedia.org] brought to you by Andrew Schlafly, the gay son of Phyllis Schlafly. Because internalized self-directed homophobia and hate is such a pitiful thing to watch. Oh, and Andrew also proposed rewriting the Bible to have a right-wing (yes, American politics) viewpoint.
I think there are far better right wing examples of rewriting history than Google as an example of SJW. Also, try duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] as a search engine.
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