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Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

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    A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and...
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    Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU...
    There is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for "desktop" search.

    #Full-text Search #Custom Search Engine #Custom Search 7 social mentions

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    > So, the deal essentially ensures that Apple will not compete. To be clear, Apple does have search and does sell advertising for it. https://searchads.apple.com They also attempt to summarize information when you do a system-level or browser-bar search. When the search shows me the local weather or a flight status or gives me a summary and direct link to Wikipedia as I type, they are taking that engagement from Google. What Apple hasn't shown interest in so far is being a general-purpose internet search engine.

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