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Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” revamping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a longtime partnership with Google.

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[–] edg@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why can't things get better for once?

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Apple: “Siri, search for a big dumb basket for me to put all my eggs into.”

Siri: “Now playing Basket Case by Green Day...”

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So this is it? The internet is done and finished. Killed by bots.

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Apple changing their browser was the final straw that killed the internet for ya?