Applebot, a web crawler for Siri and Spotlight, unmasked in a support document

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By Christian ZibregMay 6, 2015, 8:24 am313 pts
An official support document updated last evening has confirmed that Apple is using a web crawler service called Applebot to index the web for content used by its Siri personal digital assistant on iOS devices and built-in Spotlight search on both iOS and OS X. An Apple-operated engine, Applebot is described…

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