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I have been using duckduckgo for over a year, and it works pretty well. One frustration is the mapping. Apple maps is really awful. I end up switching to osm/bi
by ntw1103 6y ago
I have been using duckduckgo for over a year, and it works pretty well. One frustration is the mapping. Apple maps is really awful. I end up switching to osm/bing if I need to look something up on a map.
- eruci 6y agoMapping services are all a work in progress. Even Google Maps has been giving some strange responses lately. Say, a location deep in south west Germany shows up as Denmark on GMaps: https://twitter.com/geolytica/status/1300544359004336129 https://twitter.com/geolytica/status/1300544359004336129
- EvilGrin 6y agoYou can redirect a search in DDG to google maps with !maps OpenStreetMaps with !geouri and Bing Maps with !bm
- mhh__ 6y agoI'm assuming it's not as a bad as it was at launch, right? (For example the parallel universes like wibbly wobbly world, and the non-existent village of Basingstoke)
- Jestar342 6y ago`!bm`, `!gm`, `!osm` for Bing, Google, and OpenStreet maps, respectively.
- ntw1103 6y agoThank you, great tip.