Nov 14
Get Ready For Apple Search…
...or not, that is the question! I think iSearch would be a good name, but the domain name is already taken, so this option will probably go out. Anyway, it's not about the name, but the need - do we need another search engine? I think the answer to that is a positive one, and it seems I am not the only one, since Apple Search may be a few steps closer to reality than most people would think.
According to a report published by TechCrunch, Apple is working "on a search engine of some sort." Now, the question remaining is "what kind of search engine?," and I must confess this is a rather challenging question, but I think they will go for the mobile search market. After all, a few months ago, reports were claiming that most searches performed from mobiles were coming from iPhones, so Apple Search for mobiles makes sense.
While the report mentioned says "If Apple were building a search engine, they’d be hiring search experts and engineers. We’ve talked to a ton of them at all the big companies, and while some of them heard the same rumors, none have lost search employees to Apple, or heard of any specific hirings," I think they are missing something. Spotlight IS a search engine already, only that it's stuck inside Mac OS X. I don't know too much about it, but I don't think that turning it into a mobile search engine would be that hard.
Obviously, I am no programmer, and since my knowledge related to the innards of the Mac OS X is rather limited, I am asking those of you who have a better view of the problem - is it possible for Apple to turn Spotlight into a mobile Apple Search without making too much noise, and catch all the competitors by surprise?
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November 14th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Apple needs to stick with focusing on improving there current product lines and then expanding from there. Apple has gotten itself distracted before by thinking they can do everything. I hope Steve Jobs doesn’t run them to the ground with his massive I am the answer to everything ego.