8 posts tagged ‘Search’
Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search”
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Norbert Heger: Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the user’s device. […] macOS Sequoia introduces another new feature labelled Help Apple Improve Search, which sends and stores various […]
Apple to Defend Google Revenue Sharing Agreement
Jody Godoy (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple has asked to participate in Google’s upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send the iPhone maker billions of dollars each year for making Google the default search engine on its Safari browser.[…]Apple received an estimated $20 billion […]
Vlad Prelovac on Kagi Search and Orion
The Talk Show (transcript): Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion. Here are some highlights from what I thought was a very interesting conversation: Microsoft tried that with Bing and they […]
App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices
Mysk: This is an example of what the App Store app shares with #Apple when you search for an app. Everything you type in the search field is recorded as an event and associated with your Apple ID before it is sent to Apple. When I search for “Google Authenticator,” events are recorded as I […]
GitHub Code Search Now Requires Logging In
koepnick (via Hacker News): This is revolting and an anathema to the open source movement. A movement, I might add, Microsoft is abusing here.We’re told that this is for security… But what possible point is there when I can simply clone the repository and use more dedicated tools for proper searching and analysis?So what possible […]
Bike Outline Paths
Jesse Grosjean: Use outline paths to query your Bike outlines. Today they are used through AppleScript and Shortcuts actions. In the future they will be used to build new features such as stylesheets and outline filtering. There’s a video demonstrating them and documentation for the syntax. Previously: Bike 1.12
Google Changes Search Queries to Show More Ads
Megan Gray (via Jason Kottke): When you enter a query, you might expect a search engine to incorporate synonyms into the algorithm as well as text phrase pairings in natural language processing. But this overhaul went further, actually altering queries to generate more commercial results.There have long been suspicions that the search giant manipulates ad […]
Unlimited Kagi Searches
Kagi (Hacker News): We’re thrilled to announce that unlimited search is now included in our $10/month Professional plan and our Ultimate, Family, and Duo plans. […] With new search sources proving more cost-efficient, the improved efficiency of our infrastructure, and the broader market embracing Kagi, we can again offer an unlimited experience to a broader […]