Google is still extremely competitive in the maps/location space, and I’ve heard Apple Maps is very good these days. Secondly, these features are not trivial. Maps are much more interactive - giant teams or even orgs are managing these products at faang.
On the other hand, having language-awareness is perhaps more important. Google frequently gives me results based on location, although I don’t speak the language (well). Getting results in English is hard where I am, in the typical infantilizing fashion of megacorps (we think you want X, and we’re not gonna offer you a setting).
Edit: apparently Google added Spanish as a language automatically based on some searches, and then search results for say API docs came up in Spanish first instead, despite English being my “preferred language”.
I don't know if there's a toggle I just haven't found yet for just automatically using Google Maps for location based searches until their feature gets a little better.
Beyond that, Kagi has been an incredible breath of fresh air.
1. Location based or aware searching - it keeps giving me the UK versions of storefronts or the identically-named steakhouse a thousand miles away and not the one I can walk to. Kind of lame, particularly giving me random countries’ versions of sites. 2. The map — maybe this is a setting, but the map always gives me nearly useless results. This is probably tied to geolocation or location aware results.