As a part of the DOJ ruling that Google is a monopoly, the doc famous that Apple has its personal search index and the index measurement is of billions of internet sites. The particular quantity was redacted but it surely stated, “Apple maintains an index of about X billion web sites.”
This was on web page 15 of the doc and it goes on to say, “though it doesn’t presently plan to make use of that index to supply a outcomes web page.” This was quoting John Giannandrea who left Google to work at Apple again in 2018.
Here’s a screenshot of this:
One other fascinating factor John Giannandrea stated there was “What you embody within the index issues a
lot,” including the extra websites in an index, the higher.” The humorous factor is that Google stopped touting its index measurement again virtually 20 years in the past, in 2005 principally saying later that Google has no indexing restrict however does have limited indexing resources. Which is why many websites that are not “high quality sufficient” do not get indexed as of late.
So I do surprise if index measurement is that essential as of late or if Apple’s billion website index is nice sufficient?
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