It seems like 2020 is the year where they started launching a lot of these things and setting up for this potential search engine. So you would get a search that went to their web index, but also searched through the apps on your device and blended those results together. As further evidence that they will blend these results, Apple managed to reverse engineer the API they use for their web index, and when you do searches, you get one list of results.
and knowledge results. You get one big list of results, taiwan business email list sorted by relevancy, and it might be news, web, web, maps, whatever . The point being it shows Apple's thinking. They're concerned more with relevancy than where the results came from, and they're happy to blend them together. Okay, so they've got this federated search approach. So let's talk about how these searches can also have custom UIs. So when they rolled out the change to allow an app to cater to specific intents, that app can also tell the phone, oh, when you're catering to this specific intent, here's a snippet of user interface you can use outside of the app to cater to that in the best possible way.
As an example, if you ask Siri to split a check, it understands that the calculator app on your phone can cater to that intent. But it doesn't send you to the calculator app. Instead it shows a little custom UI snippet right there, in the search results, where it shows you how to split that check. So apps that have been installed on your phone can say, "I can deal with this sort of intent, and this is the best way to present that result to users.