Siri's actions and answers rely upon a growing ecosystem of partners, including:
OpenTable, Gayot, CitySearch, BooRah, Yelp, Yahoo Local, ReserveTravel, Localeze for restaurant and business questions and actions;Eventful, StubHub, and LiveKick for events and concert information;MovieTickets, RottenTomatoes and the New York Times for movie information and reviews;Bing Answers, and Wolfram Alpha for factual question answering;[24]Bing, Yahoo and Google for web search.
Siri是一系列技术和服务的mashup,Siri相当于在背后这些服务上增加了一个语音的外壳。如果说Siri能替代搜索,那它最终是靠谁能取代了呢?
Wolfram Alpha 曾经被很多人认为是google killer,但是实际上很难担任重任。除了wolfram还有其它所谓的语义搜索,这类搜索引擎最大的问题是可能10%的问题能比google回答的更好,但是90%的结果会比google更烂。而且用户其实也不清楚哪些问题通过wolfram搜索更合适,所以用户还是直接去google搜索保险..