Many years ago when Android started to become more popular and eat into the iPhone’s dominance, Apple made a decision to lessen their reliance on Google. In what became a PR nightmare, Apple created their own mapping solution and stopped using Google Maps. In addition on the backend, Siri is now powered by Bing. This was done well over a year ago and an announcement was made at the time. Up until now we have not had any numbers as to how many queries Bing receives from Siri users. Qi Lu, the longtime head of Microsoft’s search and online services, shed some light on this in a recent interview with Recode: We haven’t heard a lot about search in a while. We’ve heard that Yahoo hasn’t been very happy with the partnership. Is it critical to Bing’s future to have that Yahoo partnership? We’re very happy with the Yahoo partnership. We are strongly committed to do what we can to deepen that partnership. Scale is indeed a critical part of...
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