Applebotis a web crawler. To put it simply, it is software that is responsible for visiting web pages en masse on the clearnet. Often, it then uses the collected data to analyze the content, reference it and classify it, which then serves as a resource to respond to a user's queries.
This program is particularly requested bySpotlight(on Mac andiPadOS 14) and Siri, for example to find text hidden in a particular application. The developers therefore know him well, since he has access to their services. And recently, this automation is running at full speed...
This is very interesting. We're also seeing massive spike in crawls from applebot too on our sites (From 0 to 6k-7k over last few days)https://t.co/nUMAMty7Du
— Michael James Field (Mikuss) (@Mikuss)August 27, 2020
For iOS 14?
Although Apple has not yet communicated anything official on this subject, as usual, an update to the bot was published last July, probably at the origin of this growth in activity. For the rest, we assume that the publisher is in fact taking advantage of the time that remains before deploying the final version of iOS 14 to the general public in order tofurther optimize your voice assistantorits intelligent search bar.
Otherwise, it is also possible that the firm is once again working on a DuckDuckGo competitor. Indeed, this sector has not yet been attacked by the Apple brand, and it would not be the first time that rumors in the corridors attribute ambitions to it, especially since the company likes to highlight respect for thereconfidentiality…
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