Did Apple Just Ally With Microsoft Against Google?

It was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments. In Monday's WWDC keynote, Apple executive Eddy Cue was running through the new iOS 7 version of Siri, when he happened to mention Siri's default search function would be powered by Bing, not Google

That means the first default search engine on Apple's voice assistant, baked into 600 million iPhones, will be brought to you by Microsoft. It's a huge win for the giant of Redmond, which has long been hunting for more fronts to open up on Google in the search wars. "We are excited to work with Apple to deliver Bing to Siri users this fall," Microsoft VP for Bing Derrick Connell said in a statement