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Apple may be working to develop its own web-based search engine

Apple may be developing its own search engine. A series of recent sightings has pointed out evidence that Apple could be expanding Siri search results and Spotlight Searches even farther, with the company potentially working on a universal search engine. Should this be true, it would allow Apple to bypass the financial arrangement it has […]

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Apple confirms existence of “Applebot” web crawler, says program indexes the Web for Siri, Spotlight

Sometimes it’s the Web traffic logs that really let you know what Apple is up to. Last fall, a number of webmasters began seeing web crawler visits from IP addresses starting with 17, an IP address block owned entirely by Apple. Apple has now officially confirmed in a support document that it is operating its […]