Apple Search is the name that the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), gave it to a service currently unknown to the general public, being developed inside the American company, apparently for some time. For this future service the company Apple is hiring engineers capable of developing web search platforms, without however providing extremely clear details about their role in the company's line of online services. Apple says that the engineers will develop a search platform that will be used by hundreds of millions of users, they will have a role in revolutionizing the way people use their computers and mobile terminals.
Apple seeks a technical, driven and creative program manager to manage backend operations projects for a search platform supporting hundreds of millions of users. Play and part in revolutionizing how people use their computers and mobile devices. Manage operational projects that support groundbreaking technology and the most scalable big-data systems in existence.
Although many would tend to think that Apple Search could attack Google, in reality he could be thought of for a completely different utility. More specifically, Apple could use this system for searches made using Siri, Spotlight and to a lesser extent Safari, these three services using various search engines at the moment. Apple and Google could conclude a long collaboration this year to keep Google.com as Safari's default search engine, so that Apple Search it could have an appearance at the right time to be a viable alternative for users.
Given that Siri mainly uses Bing, Yahoo! and Wolfram Alpha for searches, and Spotlight is in the same situation, Apple Search will replace the Bing and Wolfram Alpha engines there, while Safari could replace Yahoo! What role Apple Search will have in the future remains to be seen, but it probably won't affect Google very much even from the moment of launch.
