[netdur]

There's absolute no way they can do, the search engine is very very expensive to operate, to be successful you have to be better than Google and that require none existing technologies (such quantum storage).

edit: Google is not doing the best at searching, they are doing the best by budget current economy allows, to be better than Google you have to cut cost of operation in very dramatic way, so you can expand the beyond where Google stands now, other than that, you can't outperform Google.

[hindsightRegret]

I, for one, welcome our quantum word salad overlords.

[shhehebehdh]

Don't be rude to non-skilled English speakers. The comment is wrong but not because of its poor English.

[luckylion]

I suppose that depends on how you finance it. For Apple, it could be a feature of their ecosystem; for Google, the search engine is just there to lure you in so they can show you ads. That would be a totally different story: does Google actually have incentive to provide you with the best organic results next to which the ads would look out of place and bad?

I don't think it would be a good business decision for Apple though, and there's no guarantee that they could even get there with throwing billions of dollars at it.

[onetimemanytime]

>>There's absolute no way they can do, the search engine is very very expensive to operate, to be successful you have to be better than Google and that require none existing technologies (such quantum storage).

There's absolute no way they can do, Maps is very very expensive to operate, to be successful you have to be better than Google and that require none existing technologies (such quantum storage).

[dmitriid]

To get serious for a second, here's an amazing article on how far Google Maps is ahead: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/

It is very hard to catch up with them.

[onetimemanytime]

OK, but the term "good enough" exists for a reason. How many users did Apple lose by not using G Maps?

So, Apple would need a "good enough" search engine and they'd buy DDG over a cup of coffee. Invest in improving it. And, yes, they're for sale, just as Microsoft or Exxon is (for the right amount of money)

[solarkraft]

Yet people use Apple Maps because they like the UX and it fulfills 90% of their mapping needs.

[Infinitesimus]

And also because every iPhone has it pre-installed. The game would be different if it was an optional download

[throwawaymath]

> to be successful you have to be better than Google and that require none existing technologies (such quantum storage).

Sorry, what? Can you clarify?

[netdur]

yep, some mad scientists are trying to create storage device with huge space, trying with biological and quantum means, the promise is to store all of internet information in a single device

if that happen, it would be possible to INDEX all of internet at very low cost and being competitive with Google. just think about how much it cost Google or BING to index 1 billion static pages.