A new report claims that factors are increasingly pointing to Apple expanding Siri search results and Spotlight Searches even farther, with the company potentially working on a universal search engine.
Apple already has a search engine it uses for Spotlight Searches and
Siri. However, if a new report is accurate, Apple may be looking to ditch the financial arrangement it has for Google to be the default on the
iPhone, and launch its own full search engine.
The main tentpole to the argument made on
Thursday morning by Jon Henshaw at
Coywolf says that it isn't clear if Siri Suggestions are using Google at all anymore. Instead, Apple is returning search results with Spotlight Search, and is bypassing other search engines.
In
AppleInsider's own brief tests on Thursday morning, some outgoing and return traffic to and from Google for Siri Suggestions in
iOS 14 passed through our router. The same search terms in iOS 13 pulled nearly entirely from Google.