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YSK: It's possible to get search results from Google without the annoying 'AI' answers at the top
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this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2024
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As you said there are people who don't want to switch from Chrome and Google, but at this point if you're talking about a ten step fix-it plan, is really does make more sense to just use Firefox and DDG. Or searx, I'm pretty sure that's still fewer steps.
"Hey wanna use our AI chat?!"
"Hey, like these autogenerated result-blobs instead of your actual results?"
"Hey, we thought you hate finding the place you were looking for, so we use Apple Maps to ensure you're getting fucking nowhere, ever!"
I wish DDG was usable. All it is, is a good showcase that Google isn't as bad as they could be.
Pfttt… 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.
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.
It's a very good showcase of how superior Google Maps actually is, as a maps application. And how much openstreetmap has left everything else in the dust, too.
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.
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.