Mark Gurman reports on a new team inside Apple developing a search engine and world knowledge model:

While still in early stages, the team is building what it calls an “answer engine” — a system capable of crawling the web to respond to general-knowledge questions. A standalone app is currently under exploration, alongside new back-end infrastructure meant to power search capabilities in future versions of Siri, Spotlight and Safari.

@manton Apple Answers+, for $9.99 a month.

@manton This is a few years too late. We’re already moving on to MCP and agents.

@manton This reads like those fast food press releases where Taco Bell “reinvents what it means to make a taco”

@gages that take reminds me of the old “Munch Squad” segment from the My Brother My Brother and Me podcast… Some really fun quick service restaurant press releases got airtime over the years 😊 mbmbam.fandom.com/wiki/Munc…

@mathyousee oh yeah, I was absolutely imagining Munch Squad when writing this - such good bits