How to Live Without Google

Re:How to Live Without Google by alexsleepy on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:23AM (#15247215)

I'm trying to minimize my interaction with google, but I still use google maps and google translate. Unfortunately Open Street Maps is nearly impossible to use. And I didn't find any alternatives to translate at all

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Re:How to Live Without Google by ThinkingGuy on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:25AM (#15248314)

I've settled on, of all things, Microsoft Translator, for this purpose. Seems to work well enough for my casual needs, and supports a good number of languages.

http://www.bing.com/translator/

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Re:How to Live Without Google by bmking on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:54AM (#15247429)

DeepL translator (https://www.deepl.com/translator) could be a nice alternative; but the number of languages is more limited.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by alexsleepy on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:58AM (#15247471)

Looks cool! Too bad it doesn't support russian or ukrainian, as they are my native languages, but still seems like a usable alternative. Thanks a lot!

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Re:How to Live Without Google by dingaling on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:59AM (#15247480)

What problems do you find with OSM?

I am a map-data contributor and am somewhat blinkered as a result. What's missing or clunky from the perspective of general users?

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Re:How to Live Without Google by alexsleepy on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:53AM (#15247976)

The main problem I faced with OSM is search. When I enter the name of the street it takes me to the random city which has the street with the same name. Google limits search results to the city I'm currently in

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Re:How to Live Without Google by jqs79 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:35PM (#15249647)

Oops, yes, same problem.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by jqs79 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:34PM (#15249637)

When searching in a city for a street name, the search results should not be a ranking that has a street in a city around the world as its first result.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by justinclift on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:34AM (#15247288)

Yandex's version seems to work decently, even in cases where Google's doesn't: https://translate.yandex.com

It defaults to translating to Russian, which is a bit annoying as it adds an extra step. But still, seems ok.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by alexsleepy on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:49AM (#15247390)

I'd rather use google than yandex. I don't trust russian companies because of political reasons and their laws about data

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Re:How to Live Without Google by justinclift on Friday September 15, 2017 @07:16PM (#15261634)

Use it through Tor then? :)

Though I suppose "Google through Tor" is pretty similar.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by jraby3 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:44AM (#15247354)

Morfix is just as good as google translate - perhaps a bit slower but the quality of the translation is on par.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by alexsleepy on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:55AM (#15247437)

Is it only for English -> Hebrew translation, or am I missing something?

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