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When I search for Fish Tacos on DDG's maps and Google, it's night and day. DDG gave me 4 results, none anywhere near me. Do you have a suggestion for how I co
by VikingCoder 7y ago
When I search for Fish Tacos on DDG's maps and Google, it's night and day.
DDG gave me 4 results, none anywhere near me.
Do you have a suggestion for how I could have been more effective?
- fiatjaf 7y agoDDG is not good for local stuff. That's in the linked article.
- AdamSC1 7y ago'Fish Tacos [X]' where X is the name of the city - or turning on your region toggle is usually enough to solve that problem.
- andrewprock 7y agoI do not use DDG for map queries. Google Maps is still light years ahead of anyone else for maps. For non-map queries, DDG is now well ahead of Google except for long tail stuff, for example: technical error messages.
- smichel17 7y agoI currently also use Google Maps for map queries.. But I use it through DuckDuckGo, with !gm. I actually find this a better experience than navigating to Google Maps before entering my query.
- Doctor_Fegg 7y agoFor POIs, Google Maps is out in front. For motoring directions, Apple is catching up. For walking and cycling, OSM is streets ahead.
- kube-system 7y agoI find DDG more useful when I treat it like it's trying to help me use the internet, rather than like it's trying to replace the internet. try "fish tacos !yelp"
- FalconSensei 7y agothen, why not just use yelp?
- kube-system 7y agoThe same reason that any ddg bang is useful: fewer keystrokes, one less page load.
- FalconSensei 7y agoIDK, for all sites I use I have them as custom searches. So Yelp would be: "y" -> tab -> search -> see Yelp results page
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