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Re:Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant ans... by klabb3 on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:16AM (#39396557)
Forgive my ignorance, but how is this “low hanging fruit”?

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”.

Re:Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant ans... by ambigious7777 on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:38AM (#39397604)
I think OP just wants to have map results based off geolocation, not a full-fledged map service.