Srinivasan Venkatachary, co-founder of laser-like, he took on the role of senior director of the Cupertino search team, managing 200 people developing features like Spotlight and Siri Suggestions, but returned to Google.
Apple will look for new ways in its development
Apple is looking for new options to fill that position and although they are direct competition with Google, the latter pays between 18,000 and 20,000 million dollars a year to remain the default search engine on all Apple devices.
The company wants to launch a new search engine or at least be a real alternative, but the report assures that they are at least 4 years away from achieving it, so there is still a long way to go.
The search engine should mean the increase of personnel focused only on its development, but that would mean a lot of money invested and the union with another search engine such as Bing is also a real option.
Apple will develop the technology and work that Srinivasan Venkatachary did during his stay in Cupertino, so they are not blank on this issue either, since they have a point of reference.
The company will look for new options in its work to develop a competitive search engine, but there is still a long way to go in this tough competition between Apple and Google.
Google is very well positioned in this matter, but their issue is about competition with devices and they even assured that they will invest more money in them than in their different services.