DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US

Re:DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in... by olyjohn on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:20PM (#35980754)

I was just using Google maps yesterday to find a restaurant I knew was there. But it wasn't showing up on the map. Then I noticed it was omitting about half the restaurants in the area. The place I was looking for finally showed up when I zoomed almost all the way into it, and then clicked "search this area." I don't know why they are leaving out so many search results on maps these days.

Just a few weeks ago, I was on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Looking for a weed shop. The only ones it would show me were miles away, and I knew there were multiple near me within walking distance. It literally gave me 2 weed shops on the map across the entire city. None anywhere near by.

Their map search has started to really suck balls too.

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Re:DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in... by vidarh on Thursday May 18, 2023 @03:59AM (#35985162)

Absolutely agree Google Maps is also awful. For transit I've completely ditched google for Citymapper (I'm in London). I think at this point Google is a reasonable fallback mostly when you expect to want someone you think would be paying Google.

Remember Goto [1]? The search engine that at the time was much maligned for letting people ... buy sponsored results and arguing it made their results better...

Goto became Overture...

Overture was bought by Yahoo.

But where Yahoo faded away, Google has largely become Goto 2.0.

There are narrow niches where that model works for users. When you're specifically searching for a shop for example, it's often ok.

But for everything else it's absolutely awful.

[1] https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/goto-forgotten-search-engine/

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