Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
by ncmncm on Friday December 13, 2019 @02:06PM
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Fortunately, the quality of Google searches has been declining at such a rate that you will soon be double-checking on DDG, instead.
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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
by incompatible on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:07PM
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It has already passed that point for me, given that Google is a) subject to censorship, on a per-country basis b) likes to return search results that don't have much to do with your query, apparently because that's what "most people" want c) records every query you make from your IP address, with no way to turn it off if you aren't logged in to a Google account d) the results I get from DDG are generally what I need.
Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
by andai on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:28PM
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Don't they get their results from Google, though?
Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
by Ndymium on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:59PM
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No, I think it's Bing and their own index.
Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore
by jakear on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:18PM
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It’s pretty much just Bing. Saw posted a bit ago that if you DDG “what is my user agent”, the website preview text will show that it’s Bing. Which means DDG is just whitelabling Bing’s index.
I use bing exclusively. Sometimes I don’t find what I want, and switching to google is as simple as swapping out the authority. The query syntax is the same.