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Is Apple preparing to launch its own search engine?

The rumor mill is revving up ahead of WWDC 2020, set to kick off on Monday, June 6th, with an oldie but a goodie: Apple is prepping the launch its own search engine at the beginning of 2023. Joel Khalili for TechRadar: The source of the rumor is a tweet (opens in new tab) from blogger Robert Scoble, which features at the end of a thread describing the announcements he expects from Apple over…

Apple tried to hire away former Google search chief Ben Gomes

When Apple went after a pair of high-profile managers for its Siri and artificial intelligence groups: Google’s top brass overseeing search. Mark Gurman and Mark Bergen for Bloomberg News: Apple succeeded in attracting one of those executives: John Giannandrea, who had served as Google’s search and AI chief, bringing him on as head of Siri and machine learning in 2018. That much is known. But…

Australia to investigate Apple’s default search deal with Google

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is concerned about “choice and competition in internet search and web browsers,” focused on internet browser defaults, including Apple’s default search deal with Google. Last October, the U.S. Justice Department filed a landmark lawsuit against Google — the U.S. government’s biggest antitrust case in two decades — and homed in on the…

Is Apple Building Its Own Search Engine?

Apple steps up efforts to develop alternative to Google search monopoly

Apple has increased its efforts to develop its own search technology as competition authorities in the U.S. and Europe question its deal with Google which pays Apple billions of dollars a year to make its search engine the default option on Apple devices.

Apple Park in Cupertino, California

Tim Bradshaw and Patrick McGee for Financial Times:

In a little-noticed change to the latest version of the…

Google pays Apple $8 billion to $12 billion per year to be default search on iPhones, iPads, and Macs

Last Tuesday, the Justice Department filed a landmark lawsuit against Google — the U.S. government’s biggest antitrust case in two decades — and homed in on the Google’s annual multi-billion dollar payment to Apple to be default search on iPhones, iPads, and Macs as a prime example of what prosecutors say are the company’s illegal tactics to protect its monopoly and kill off competition in web…