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To be honest wouldn't Google search disappearing from iOS devices play in google's advantage looking at their Nexus devices? I mean ... what are the odds Apple comes up with something beter, even third party?

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You have to remember that search is Google's core business, it's where they make their money (well, advertising really, but advertising in search).

From the sketchy article details, it seems like it's win-win for both Apple and Google. Google makes money from user searches on iOS, then shares a portion of that with Apple. The gamble is whether Google needs to be paying Apple anything at all.

I think its about time that we realize that Google is no longer the far and above better search engine for what most people search for. News, celebrities, sports, recipes, etc... these are all low hanging fruit when it comes to search. I have no doubt that Bing is on par with Google when it comes to these categories. I'm sure Google still wins massively on the "long tail" search, but these types of searches are only important to a small percentage of users. If Apple suddenly changed their default search to Bing (perhaps also removing branding), I don't think anyone would care besides the techie folks and the bloggers.

I personally believe that long tail searches will become even more important in the future with users entering their search queries via tools like Siri and Google Now.

I do not have any hard facts to support that subjective opinion, but to me it feels a lot more natural to speak out a query as a full sentence than to say a few keywords.

Bing is likely good enough for the likes of my parents.

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