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posted by martyb on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-what-Siri-told-me dept.

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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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:35PM (#573815)

    Sure the results are biased, but they are always biased the same way.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:55PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 27 2017, @02:55PM (#573825) Journal

    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)

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