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Google is on track, albeit slowly, to the AltaVista destination. When in 1999, before the first collapse, the competitors to Google were inundating users with
by Agustus 10y ago
Google is on track, albeit slowly, to the AltaVista destination.
When in 1999, before the first collapse, the competitors to Google were inundating users with in-result ads, crazy load times and odd results. This was pushed by the stock's need to show constant revenue growth.
Google now is adding more ads, configuring the ads in-line to increase clicks (yes, they are 65% relevant), integrating an obtuse implementation within Maps, and so forth.
DuckDuckGo becomes more viable each day as an alternative.
- rudolf0 10y agoI can't deny any of that, and DDG has a better UX, but Google is still by far superior when it comes to returning relevant results. I do a lot of Googling for my job (and life), and nothing I've tried seems to compare to Google's results yet.
- Agustus 10y agoAbsolutely. Google is far and away what I fall back to when I need to really find something. That being said, I use Bing and DDG as my defaults to see if I get good enough results.
- hackney 10y agoEven though I have the latest version of Maps installed I never use it and it is disabled and blocked from the net. Osmand works great, aside from when it tells you to get on a freeway; it doesn't, and will say something like "veer right", which has caused some headaches. Searching within osmand for an exact address also sucks. I have to enter Los Angeles for cities such as say, Reseda, when it should know better. Thankfully the fdroid apk AddressToGps fixes the search perfectly, allowing you to enter an exact address which then uses a google api to pull up the exact coordinates which is then seamlessly handed off to Osmand. All you do after is tell it to map the route. Without addressTogps, osmand is practically unuseable. GEO Bookmark, fdroid repo, is also an excellent companion ap to osmand.