Apple gets a smarter and wealthier class of users/buyers. They are ditching google searches in favor of AI searches. Is why Safari is incorporating AI searches.
I will try the others, but for now I use Grok3 and Perplexity AI searches. And Perplexity for about 8 months, instead of Bing, that I used for 5 years.
Alphabet shares sink 8% after Apple’s Cue says AI will replace search engines
Wed, May 7 2025
Alphabet and Apple shares sank after Eddy Cue, Apple’s services chief, said he believes that AI search engines will eventually replace standard search engines such as Google, according to Bloomberg.
Cue said he expects to add the artificial intelligence services from OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic as search options in Apple’s Safari browser in the future, according to the report.
The Apple executive was testifying in a federal court in Washington as part of the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet.
Siri is utterly useless. Google Pixels with Gemini run circles around Siri.
Google utterly sucks now as a “search engine”. They even stopped using that term and call it a decision engine.
They weight paid commercial results, and very current results.
I cannot count the number of times I have been looking for something I know exists and have visited it in the past. Usually something not in the last three or four years, but fifteen years ago or so, or referring to something from decades past. Human dosage for Ivermectin horse paste, or Hydroxychloroquine is an example. Or a printable PDF of the Covid shot card. All you get is the covid era censored propaganda. Or try to do a deep dive on the nazi culture of the Banderists.
Like a willful child. google refuses to find it for me. This is especially true if it’s anything historical or which runs counter to today’s narrative.
No matter how you rejigger the search terms, add the parentheses, etc... nothing but very recent and often commercial or modern propaganda results.
None of the old tricks work.
Switch over to Bing and it often improves a little, or DuckDuckGo and it gets better by a lot. Last, try Yandex and there it is but with some very strange porn mixed in that you have to ignore.
But Google utterly sucks. I have always though China or Russia or someone beyond the reach of our courts should simply release a Google circa 2011 search engine clone and destroy Google as a search engine.
Wow. I do searches from iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro but my default search engine is DuckDuckGo. So I got to wondering if DDG uses Google for search and that would indirectly be part of that $20 billion. So, I asked DDG "Does DuckDuckGo Search use Google results?". It replied...
No. DuckDuckGo has no relationship with Google. You may notice content originally from Google, such as YouTube videos, in our search results. Even though Google has a monopoly on access to this content, we are able to get it anonymously via indirect sources. This ensures we still offer quality search results without needing to rely on Google directly for any of it. We also offer an extension for Google Chrome and an app for Android devices, but these are not in partnership with Google – and actually aim to protect you from Google’s online trackers.
Thanks...I don’t want it.
AI-Aptitude Intrusion.
Mr. Cue clarified, that Apple is considering, but not currently acting.
Wow! How much is google making?
FTA: Apple currently rakes in about $20 billion annually from its share of revenue from Google searches made from Safari on Apple devices.
i’ve pretty much quit using google search for much of anything except for mundane stuff about where to buy a particular part or some such thing ...
now i use Elon Musk’s Grok 3 for everything else ...