Comment on YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top
_pete_@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoPfttt… at least with DDG you can turn any of that stuff off with a button in a UI rather than having to make a new bookmark or fuck around with your browsers search engine.
You can even turn the ads off if you want.
Also, Apple Maps is totally fine, it’s not overloaded with ads like Google Maps is and it basically always finds the place I search for.
Carighan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Okay this is the one thing I’d readily disagree on.
Beyond its absolutely inability to find non-US results (there’s a steak house next to me, I can enter that exact name including capitalization + the name of the city I live in, and it’ll instead find a different-named steak house in a US city names like my non-US one instead), not being able to click places on the map to select them is just laughable.
Nevermind how it’s navigation is ridiculous, at least over here. It just travels shortest path, no respect for traffic lights or anything.
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 5 weeks ago
Agreed, and additionally in Australka at least it’s also slow as absolute fuck. Click on the map preview? Takes at least 30s to load the base map.
_pete_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I guess YMMV, I just tried a few places around me (UK) and it found them all. You can also defiantly tap on a place to select it.
Did you try it recently or a while ago? I know it was pretty woeful when it came out but it’s improved a whole lot over the years.