Apple confirms its ‘Applebot’ is indexing the web for Siri and SpotlightRumors that Apple might be creating its own search engine started doing the rounds last fall, when webmasters started seeing web crawler visits from IP addresses starting with 17 – the IP address block owned entirely by Apple. Apple has now officially confirmed in a support document that it is operating its own web crawler called Applebot. […]<img alt="" border="0" src="

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Apple confirms its ‘Applebot’ is indexing the web for Siri and Spotlight