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> Even a company like Apple couldn't do it in anything under maybe 7-10 years, regardless of how much money they throw at the problem.

Apple has been indexing the web for years, using that for Siri and Spotlight search results. They continue to make improvements to their search capabilities in plain sight.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683

You can safely assume that for any critical external dependencies, Apple is working on one or more Plan Bs.



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