Appebot identified!

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)

Just found out an applebot recently crawled my website. But, why?

Is Apple trying to build its own search engine? Interesting...