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Yeah, Google is far better at location-aware searches. To be honest most of those are usually done in Google Maps (sigh.. please somebody make a decent Google M

Yeah, Google is far better at location-aware searches. To be honest most of those are usually done in Google Maps (sigh.. please somebody make a decent Google Maps alternative!) anyway, so it's not really an issue.

Eric_WVGG 7y ago
It's not just location-awareness. They also excel at weird fuzzy searches. random example: My girlfriend lost her laptop in airport security, and I wanted to find a picture of the specific scratch-and-sniff sticker she put on it for the claim form. Duck Duck Go search for "glossier blackberry sticker" didn't find it; Google Images did, first try. * this turned out to be a good move, I got a positive response from TSA within minutes
JohnFen 7y ago
> Yeah, Google is far better at location-aware searches. That's one of the reasons that I'm glad that I stopped using Google search. I've always hated location-aware searches.
polar 7y ago
> please somebody make a decent Google Maps alternative! https://wego.here.com/ https://wego.here.com/ ?
loopz 7y ago
On Duckduckgo there's a switch to turn on Region just below the search-field, or even choose Region manually. It helps alot!
BlueTemplar 7y ago
One issue is that "a decent Google Maps alternative" would cost literally billions at this point. This kind of infrastructure is really the government's job, but they have struggled to keep pace...