Apple ditches Bing in favor of Google on iOS and macOS

Sep25

by Sindy Cator on September 25, 2017 at 5:00 pm

Apple is switching Siri’s default search provider from Bing to Google. It’s also making the switch on iOS Search and Spotlight for Mac. This means, if you ask Siri a question for which she needs to visit the web — either by asking her a question she doesn’t know the answer to or by asking her to search the web directly — the results you get will be from Google, not Bing. According to Apple, this is to make searches more consistent across all its devices. Apple told TechCrunch: Switching to Google as the web search provider for Siri, Search within…