It’s infuriating that Safari/Apple only allows me to choose from five different search engines. I self-host my own SearXNG instance and have to use a third-party extension to redirect my queries.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Why can't things get better for once?
Reducing Google’s monopoly on search is at least a marginal improvement in its own right, even if Apple’s search ends up being equally shitty.
Greed
Shareholders
That's the real reason.
I mean, money can improve so many things. But when you have a bunch of investors and shareholders that have stupid fucking ideas in how to tank things if it means they get out squeaky clean with money, they'll take it.
Apple: “Siri, search for a big dumb basket for me to put all my eggs into.”
Siri: “Now playing Basket Case by Green Day...”
Hopefully that just means using AI to find and index existing content, not to fabricate its own results.
pls burst already ai bubble and take all tech companies that chased it with you
So this is it? The internet is done and finished. Killed by bots.
Apple changing their browser was the final straw that killed the internet for ya?