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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Google search has sucked for a couple years now. DuckDuckGo is better for everything except maps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's been my go to since they started. There is/was a challenge using them when we evaluated them a while back with forcing safe search reliability if I recall the reason.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thats because for some ungodly reason they use Apple Maps. Not sure why they dont integrat with an OpenStreetMaps like service. At least that way users can start contributing to fill the gaps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Mapy is also a great European alternative, based on OpenStreetMaps