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